Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Released on by Paola Tartakoff
preview-18

  • Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe Book Detail

  • Author : Paola Tartakoff
  • Release Date : 2020-01-17
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 264
  • ISBN 13 : 0812251873
  • File Size : 67,67 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe by Paola Tartakoff PDF Summary

Book Description: A investigation into the thirteenth-century Norwich circumcision case and its meaning for Christians and Jews 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: Christians and Jews, she posits, 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Between Christian and Jew

Between Christian and Jew

File Size : 18,18 MB
Total View : 3258 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation.

Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia

Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 1543 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this detailed study, Nina Caputo examines conceptions of history and messianic redemption in the writings of the Catalonian rabbi and brilliant Talmudic scho

Bastards and Believers

Bastards and Believers

File Size : 2,2 MB
Total View : 8607 Views
DOWNLOAD

A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversi

Brothers from Afar

Brothers from Afar

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 3910 Views
DOWNLOAD

Revisionist approach to a status of apostates in medieval European rabbinic thought. In Brothers from Afar: Rabbinic Approaches to Apostasy and Reversion in Med