Trent, 1475 : Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial

by R. Po-chia Hsia

• ISBN13: 9780300068726
• ISBN10: 0300068727
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1996-09-25
• Publisher: Yale Unversity Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
The Prince-Bishop	p. 1
The Jewish Community	p. 14
The Inquest	p. 26
The Torture Chamber	p. 34
"Blessed Simon Martyr"	p. 51
Theater of Death	p. 61
The Apostolic Commissioner	p. 69
An Ethnography of Blood	p. 81
The Convert	p. 95
The Women	p. 105
Judgment in Rome	p. 117
Epilogue	p. 132
Appendix: A Note on Sources	p. 137
Notes	p. 141
Index	p. 169
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