Ebook: “On Everyone’s Lips”: Humanists, Jews, and the Tale of Simon of Trent
- Series: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance vol. 36
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: ACMRS Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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On Easter Sunday in 1475 the corpse of a two-year-old child was found in a ditch in Trent, and the rumour that he had been ritually murdered by Jews quickly gained acceptance; suspects were tried, confessed under torture and executed. Examining how a cult of Simon and the blood libel against Jews were widely spread through printed verse and prose accounts, this volume presents a selection of vernacular and Latin texts with facing translations and notes.
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