Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe:
In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode...
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Zusammenfassung: | In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode as an attempted ritual murder. Contextualizing and analyzing accounts of this event and others, with special attention to the roles of children, Paola Tartakoff sheds new light on medieval Christian views of circumcision. She shows that Christian characterizations of Jews as sinister agents of Christian apostasy belonged to the same constellation of anti-Jewish libels as the notorious charge of ritual murder. Drawing on a wide variety of Jewish and Christian sources, Tartakoff investigates the elusive backstory of the Norwich circumcision case and exposes the thirteenth-century resurgence of Christian concerns about formal Christian conversion to Judaism. In the process, she elucidates little-known cases of movement out of Christianity and into Judaism, as well as Christian anxieties about the instability of religious identity.Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe recovers the complexity of medieval Jewish-Christian conversion and reveals the links between religious conversion and mounting Jewish-Christian tensions. At the same time, Tartakoff does not lose sight of the mystery surrounding the events that spurred the Norwich circumcision case, and she concludes the book by offering a solution of her own. She posits that Christians and Jews understood these events in fundamentally irreconcilable ways, illustrating the chasm that separated Christians and Jews in a world in which some Christians and Jews knew each other intimately |
Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020) |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (304 pages) 3 illus |
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physical | 1 online resource (304 pages) 3 illus |
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spelling | Tartakoff, Paola 1978- Verfasser (DE-588)1022671685 aut Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe Paola Tartakoff Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2019] © 2020 1 online resource (304 pages) 3 illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Middle Ages Series Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020) In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode as an attempted ritual murder. Contextualizing and analyzing accounts of this event and others, with special attention to the roles of children, Paola Tartakoff sheds new light on medieval Christian views of circumcision. She shows that Christian characterizations of Jews as sinister agents of Christian apostasy belonged to the same constellation of anti-Jewish libels as the notorious charge of ritual murder. Drawing on a wide variety of Jewish and Christian sources, Tartakoff investigates the elusive backstory of the Norwich circumcision case and exposes the thirteenth-century resurgence of Christian concerns about formal Christian conversion to Judaism. In the process, she elucidates little-known cases of movement out of Christianity and into Judaism, as well as Christian anxieties about the instability of religious identity.Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe recovers the complexity of medieval Jewish-Christian conversion and reveals the links between religious conversion and mounting Jewish-Christian tensions. At the same time, Tartakoff does not lose sight of the mystery surrounding the events that spurred the Norwich circumcision case, and she concludes the book by offering a solution of her own. She posits that Christians and Jews understood these events in fundamentally irreconcilable ways, illustrating the chasm that separated Christians and Jews in a world in which some Christians and Jews knew each other intimately In English Geschichte 1200-1400 gnd rswk-swf History Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies HISTORY / Medieval bisacsh Antisemitism Europe History To 1500 Blood accusation Europe History To 1500 Christianity and other religions Europe Judaism History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Judaism History To 1500 Conversion History To 1500 Judaism Relations Christianity History To 1500 Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd rswk-swf Religiöse Identität (DE-588)4354651-1 gnd rswk-swf Judentum (DE-588)4114087-4 gnd rswk-swf Konversion Religion (DE-588)4127377-1 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 g Religiöse Identität (DE-588)4354651-1 s Konversion Religion (DE-588)4127377-1 s Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 s Judentum (DE-588)4114087-4 s Geschichte 1200-1400 z 1\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296730 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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title | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe |
title_auth | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe |
title_exact_search | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe |
title_exact_search_txtP | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe |
title_full | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe Paola Tartakoff |
title_fullStr | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe Paola Tartakoff |
title_full_unstemmed | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe Paola Tartakoff |
title_short | Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe |
title_sort | conversion circumcision and ritual murder in medieval europe |
topic | History Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies HISTORY / Medieval bisacsh Antisemitism Europe History To 1500 Blood accusation Europe History To 1500 Christianity and other religions Europe Judaism History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Judaism History To 1500 Conversion History To 1500 Judaism Relations Christianity History To 1500 Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1 gnd Religiöse Identität (DE-588)4354651-1 gnd Judentum (DE-588)4114087-4 gnd Konversion Religion (DE-588)4127377-1 gnd |
topic_facet | History Jewish Studies Medieval and Renaissance Studies Religion Religious Studies HISTORY / Medieval Antisemitism Europe History To 1500 Blood accusation Europe History To 1500 Christianity and other religions Europe Judaism History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Christianity History To 1500 Circumcision Religious aspects Judaism History To 1500 Conversion History To 1500 Judaism Relations Christianity History To 1500 Christentum Religiöse Identität Judentum Konversion Religion Europa |
url | https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296730 |
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