[PDF.66oc] Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (The Middle Ages Series)

Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (The Middle Ages Series)

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 | #1574807 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2004-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.59 x5.98l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| A Foundation of Jewish-Christian Relations|By Rob Hardy|In the year 1290 in Paris, a poor Christian woman was tempted by a Jew to whom she owed money. The debt would be canceled if she would merely bring him from Easter communion the host, the sanctified bread. She may have simply kept the host in her mouth and removed it secretly. The Jew, once he had the host, applied to| ||"What triggers landmark events in history, Rubin explains, is often fictions that people believe, rather than incidents that actually took place. . . . With the flair of the ethnographer, Rubin taps into those perennial transpositions and transferences whereb

Beginning in Paris in the year 1290, Jews were accused of abusing Christ by desecrating the eucharist—the manifestation of Christ's body in the communion service. Over the next two centuries this tale of desecration spread throughout Europe and led to violent anti-Jewish activity in areas from Catalonia to Bohemia, particularly in some German-speaking regions, where at times it produced regionwide massacres and "cleansings."

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