Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Paola Tartakoff

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2020

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Paola Tartakoff

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296730

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About this book

Inspired by one fascinating and unusual historical case, Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe explores the ways religious conversion fueled Jewish-Christian tensions. In the process, it elucidates how the interplay of fact and fantasy shaped Christian views of Jews as agents of Christian apostasy to Judaism.

Author / Editor information

Paola Tartakoff is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is author of Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"In her original and impressively researched investigation of medieval Jewish and Christian understandings of religious identity, Paola Tartakoff shows how a single conversion could affect families and entire communities in unpredictable ways. Specialists will welcome the volume of evidence she brings from both archival and published sources, as well as her elegant and persuasive exposition of the critical role of conversion in worsening relationships between Christians and Jews across thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe. Non-specialists will find this study entirely accessible."—Robert Stacey, University of Washington

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Usage Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Christian Vulnerabilities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter 2. From Circumcision to Ritual Murder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 3. Christian Conversion to Judaism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 4. Return to Judaism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter 5. Contested Children Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 3 illus.
Keywords: History; Religion; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Religious Studies; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: December 20, 2019
ISBN: 9780812296730