Blood Libel : On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth / Magda Teter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teter, Magda, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood accusation--Europe--History.

Blood accusation.

Christianity and antisemitism--Europe--History.

Christianity and antisemitism.

Anti-Jewish propaganda--Europe--History.

Anti-Jewish propaganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 539 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Drawing on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Magda Teter tells the history of the antisemitic blood libel myth, whose long shadow extends from premodern monastic chronicles to Facebook. The vocabulary and images that crystallized and spread with the invention of the printing press are still with us, as are their pernicious consequences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Note on Places and Names

Introduction

1. From Medieval Tales to the Challenge in Trent

2. The Death of Little Simon and the Trial of Jews in Trent

3. Echoes of Simon of Trent in European Culture

4. Blood Libels and Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

5. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews Respond to Blood Libels

6. "Who Should One Believe, the Rabbis or the Doctors of the Church?"

7. "Jews Are Deemed Innocent in the Tribunals of Italy"

8. The "Enlightenment" Pope Benedict XIV and the Blood Accusation

9. Cardinal Ganganelli's Secret Report

10. Calculated Pragmatism and the Waning of Accusations

Epilogue: The Trail Continues

Notes

Archival and Printed Primary Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-491) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780674243552

0674243552

9780674243545

0674243544

OCLC:

1143809276