Blood libel
Subtitle: the ritual murder accusation at the limit of Jewish history
By: Hannah R. Johnson
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780472118359; 9780472028436
Subjects: Judaism; Jews; Persecutions; Christianity and antisemitism; Christianity; Relations; Blood accusation; Antisemitism; Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ethical dimensions of historical interpretation; the blood libel as limit case; title: Thomas of Monmouth and the juridical discourse of ritual murder; title: Moralization and method in Gavin Langmuir's history of antisemitism; title: On being implicated: Israel Yuval and the new history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations; title: Beyond implication: the Ariel Toaff affair and the question of complicity.