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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Brill
2018
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Medieval encounters
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 361-389 |
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Conversion
circumcision
ritual murder
blood libel
Norwich
anti-Judaism
childhood
jewish-christian relations
Matthew Paris
imitatio Christi
circumcision of Christ
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