The pinnacle of hatred the blood libel and the Jews - O'Brien, Darren (Hebrew Univ. Magnes Press, 2011)
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Macquarie University, North Ride, N.S.W., 2004
Includes bibliographical references (pages [406]-453) and index
Julius Streicher, Der Stürmer, and Ritualmord -- Schramm, Himmler and Der jüdische Ritualmord -- The present -- A pre-Ritualmord taxonomy -- The early phase -- Macroscopic and microscopic views of murder -- Murder, mutilation murder, crucifixion murder -- The Jews as crucifiers -- The Holy Sepulchre and the First Crusade -- Chroniclers, medieval monks and the "Christianicides" -- Christian anxiety, blood libel and transubstantiation -- Anti-hereticism and anti-Jewism -- Law, theology, Jews, and heretics -- Classifying a heretic and determining heretical behaviour -- The first allegations of blood libel, 1235-1459 -- The true believers -- Dissemination, elision, distortion, renewed fabrication -- Moulding Ritualmord