From Conversion to Ritual Murder: Re-Contextualizing the Circumcision Charge

In the 1230s, Christian authorities prosecuted Norwich Jews on charges of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old boy in an effort to convert him to Judaism. In the same decade, English chroniclers began to depict this case as an attempted ritual murder. According to Roger Wendover and Matthew...

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Main Author: Tartakoff, Paola 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 361-389
Further subjects:B Conversion circumcision ritual murder blood libel Norwich anti-Judaism childhood jewish-christian relations Matthew Paris imitatio Christi circumcision of Christ
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