“=Consolation= for the Sorrows of Israel,” by Samuel Usque, =4=, 558-61. =Constance, the Council of=, and Benedict XIII, =4=, 212, 216. condemns Ferrer, =4=, 217. anarchy during, =4=, 218. elects Martin V pope, =4=, 219. condemns John Huss to death, =4=, 221. expenses of, borne by the Jews, =4=, 248. =Constance (Costnitz), the Jews of=, charged with well poisoning, =4=, 105. wait on Martin V, =4=, 219. =Constance= (lake), the cities on, the Jews of, charged with well poisoning, =4=, 105. =Constantia=, queen-mother, contends for the regency in Castile, =4=, 52. =Constantine I=, emperor, puts Judaism on an equality with Christianity, =2=, 561. under the influence of Christianity, =2=, 561-2. abolishes the privileges of the Jews, =2=, 563; =5=, 725. closes Jerusalem to the Jews, =2=, 564; =3=, 11-12. protects the Jews against apostates, =2=, 564. anti-Jewish restrictions of, revived, =3=, 23, 171. =Constantine VIII= (944-949), Byzantine emperor, and Abdul-Rahman III, =3=, 218. =Constantine=, African town, refuge for Spanish Jews, =4=, 197. =Constantine Dragosses=, last Byzantine emperor, =4=, 267. =Constantinople=, the Temple vessels in, =3=, 26-7. Karaite center, =4=, 69, 71, 269. fall of, =4=, 267. Spanish spoken at, by the exiles, =4=, 388. the Spanish exiles in, =4=, 402-4. the Mendes-Nassi family in, =4=, 577. rabbis of, advise the diversion of Jewish trade from Ancona, =4=, 580. rabbis of, excommunicate Daud, =4=, 599. description of, by Moses Almosnino, =4=, 608. Joseph Delmedigo at, =5=, 76. Sabbataï Zevi at, =5=, 145-8. effect of Sabbataï’s apostasy in, =5=, 157. Sabbatians excommunicated in, =5=, 157, 159. Sabbataï Zevi banished to, =5=, 166. Cardoso at, =5=, 207. Chayim Malach banished from, =5=, 214. Chayon at, =5=, 227-8. rabbis of, espouse the cause of Eibeschütz, =5=, 264. a rabbi of, accused of using human blood, =5=, 640. revision of the Rhodes trial at, =5=, 647. =Constantinople, the Jews of=, inhabit a separate quarter, =3=, 26. expelled, =3=, 26. in the twelfth century, =3=, 425. divided into national groups, =4=, 402, 478. taxed, =4=, 402. have a political representative, =4=, 404. collect a ransom for Polish-Jewish captives, =5=, 8. appeal to the European Jews, =5=, 651. =Constantius=, emperor, influence of, on the Church, =2=, 566. teachers of the Law banished from Judæa under, =2=, 566-7. hostile to the Jews, =2=, 567-8. founder of the Christian state, =2=, 568. re-enacts Hadrian’s edicts against the Jews, =2=, 571. makes Julian co-emperor, =2=, 595. law of, with regard to the slaves of Jews revived, =2=, 615. law of, concerning the Patriarchs re-enacted, =2=, 616. =Constitutio Judæorum=, issued by Innocent III, =3=, 497.