Gentile Tales: the Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
Drawing on sources ranging from religious tales to Jews' confessions made under torture to religious poems, Miri Rubin explores the frightening power of this narrative. She looks not just at the occasions on which massacres occurred but also at those times when the story failed to set off violence. She also investigates the ways in which these tales were commemorated in rituals, altarpieces, and legends and thus became enshrined in local traditions. In exploring the character, nature, development, and eventual decay of this fantasy of host desecration, Rubin presents a vivid picture of the mental world of late medieval Europe and of the culture of anti-semitism.
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