Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of a Christian child in order to use his...
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On Easter Sunday, 1475, the dead body of a two-year-old boy named Simon was found in the cellar of a Jewish family's house in Trent, Italy. Town magistrates arrested eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780300068726 (0300068727)
ASIN: 300068727
Publish date: September 25th 1996
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English