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Blood libel : on the trail of an antisemitic myth /
"Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Degruyterct.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From medieval tales to the challenge in Trent
- The death of Little Simon and the trial of Jews in Trent
- Echoes of Simon of Trent in European culture
- Blood libels and cultures of knowledge in early modern Europe
- Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews respond to blood libels
- "Who should one believe, the rabbis or the doctors of the Church?"
- "Jews are deemed innocent in the tribunals in Italy"
- The "Enlightenment" Pope Benedict XIV and the blood accusation
- Cardinal Ganganelli's secret report
- Calculated pragmatism and the waning of accusations
- Epilogue: The trail continues.