Early Accusations of Well Poisoning against Jews: Medieval Reality or Historiographical Fiction?
This article reexamines the idea prevalent in existing historiography that Jews were accused of well poisoning before 1321. It argues that the historians who studied the origins of such accusations were misled by sources written in the early modern period to think that Jews were charged with well po...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 5, Pages: 517-539 |
Further subjects: | B
Historiography
Jews
Jewish history
persecution
poison
water
well poisoning
well-poisoning accusations
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