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Gentile Tales - The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (Paperback)
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Gentile Tales - The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Beginning in Paris in the year 1290, Jews were accused of abusing
Christ by desecrating the eucharist--the manifestation of Christ's
body in the communion service. Over the next two centuries this
tale of desecration spread throughout Europe and led to violent
anti-Jewish activity in areas from Catalonia to Bohemia,
particularly in some German-speaking regions, where at times it
produced regionwide massacres and "cleansings."
Drawing on sources ranging from religious tales and poems to Jews'
confessions made under torture, Miri Rubin explores the frightening
power of one of the most persistent anti-Jewish stories of the
Middle Ages and the violence that it bred. She looks not just at
the occasions on which massacres occurred but also at those times
when the story failed to set off violence. She investigates as well
the ways these tales were commemorated in rituals, altarpieces, and
legends and were enshrined in local traditions. In exploring the
character, nature, development, and eventual decay of this fantasy
of host desecration, Rubin presents a vivid picture of the mental
world of late medieval Europe and of the culture of anti-Judaism.
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