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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812298536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.) , 3 bw halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blurton, Heather Inventing William of Norwich
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    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Cultural Studies ; Literature ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; De vita et passione Sancti Willelmi Martyris Norwicensis ; Antisemitismus
    Abstract: William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism. His story is first told in Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, a work that elaborates the bizarre allegation, invented in twelfth-century England, that Jews kidnapped Christian children and murdered them in memory and mockery of the crucifixion of Christ.In Inventing William of Norwich Heather Blurton resituates Thomas's account by offering the first full analysis of it as a specifically literary work. The second half of the twelfth century was a time of great literary innovation encompassing an efflorescence of saints' lives and historiography, as well as the emergence of vernacular romance, Blurton observes. She examines The Life and Miracles within the framework of these new textual developments and alongside innovations in liturgical and devotional practices to argue that the origin of the ritual murder accusation is imbricated as much in literary culture as it is in the realities of Christian-Jewish relations or the emergence of racially based discourses of antisemitism. Resisting the urge to interpret this first narrative of the blood libel with the hindsight knowledge of later developments, she considers only the period from about 1150-1200. In so doing, Blurton redirects critical attention away from the social and economic history of the ritual murder accusation to the textual genres and tastes that shaped its forms and themes and provided its immediate context of reception. Thomas of Monmouth's narrative in particular, and the ritual murder accusation more generally, were strongly shaped by literary convention
    Note: In English
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0822392607 , 9780822392606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 377 p.)
    Year of publication: 2010
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Deutsch, Sandra McGee, 1950 - Crossing borders, claiming a nation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Deutsch, Sandra McGee, 1950 - Crossing borders, claiming a nation
    DDC: 920.72/0982
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    Keywords: Jewish women History 19th century ; Jewish women History 20th century ; Jewish women ; Argentina ; History ; 2 ; th century ; Jewish women ; Argentina ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Jewish women ; Argentina ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Argentinien ; Jüdin ; Sozialgeschichte 1880-1955
    Abstract: "If the water is sweet" : Jewish women in the countryside -- "I worked, I struggled" : Jewish women in Buenos Aires -- "A point of connection" : pathways into the professions -- "Not a novice" : prostitutes -- "A bad reputation" : family and sexuality -- "What surrounds us dissatisfies us" : leftists and union members through the 1930s -- "A dike against reaction" : contesting anti-semitism, fascism, and Peronism -- "We the women have to do something" : philanthropies and Zionism.
    Note: Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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