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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200

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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200 - Blurton, Heather
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"Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200 offers a revisionist reading of the twelfth-century saint's life that contains the earliest account of a Christian child ritually murdered by Jews and is thus a seminal text in the long history of antisemitism. Heather Blurton demonstrates how innovations in literary forms in the twelfth century shaped the articulation of medieval antisemitism, which is as much a product of literary history as of political history"--

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Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200 2022, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812253924

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