Bodo (bishop)

Bodo (c. 814– 876) was the palace deacon to Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious (814 to 840). In early 838, Bodo intended to make a pilgrimage to Rome but instead converted to Judaism. His conversion was regarded as a rejection of the Carolingian culture and the Christian faith. Bodo left the Carolingian Kingdom for Muslim Spain in 839. He took the Jewish name Eleazar, had himself circumcised and married a Jewish woman. In 839 Bodo moved to Saragossa, "This is another evidence of the prestige of Spanish Judaism at that time." Poliakov, Leon, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 2: from Mohammad to the Marranos page 96, University of Pennsylvania Press: 2003Poliakov, Leon, The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 2: from Mohammad to the Marranos page 107, University of Pennsylvania Press: 2003

Correspondence with Álvaro

In 840 Bodo began a correspondence with a Christian intellectual Pablo Alvaro of Cordova (Cordova was also a Muslim area of Spain)., but had converted to Christianity. Because Bodo and Alvaro were both...
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