Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa
Angaben zur Quelle:
38,3 (2002) 475-508
Keywords:
Blood accusation
;
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Asserts that during the 18th century in Italy, although the Catholic Church was influenced by the spirit of Enlightenment and refuted ritual murder accusations brought against Jews, it paradoxically accepted the authority of hagiographic works, in which those accusations were featured, when searching for scientific bases to decide on beatification. These works were presented as works of rationalism and erudition; they proved to be a most effective way to perpetuate the stereotype of the Jew as a ritual murderer. Points to the work of Paolo Sebastiano Medici, who published a book containing the legend of Simon Abeles of Prag (1736), of Bendetto Benelli di Cavalese, who tried to prove the holiness of Simon of Trent (1747), of Gian Pietro Vitti, who wrote a chronicle on Christian children allegedly tormented by Jews (1761), and the reprint in 1775 of a work by Taddeo Ginelli about Simon of Trent, which first appeared in 1597.
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