Editorial: University of Pennsylvania Press
Colección: Jewish Culture and Contexts
Número de páginas: 440 págs.
Fecha de edición: 31-01-2024
EAN: 9781512824100
ISBN: 978-1-5128-2410-0
Precio (sin IVA): 96,28 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 100,13 €
Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe. Through an analysis of folk tales, myths, legal proceedings, and religious art, Aron-Beller finds that narratives alleging that Jews committed violence against images of Christ, Mary, and the disciples flourished in Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries.