Langmuir: Thomas, 'detector' of ritual murder

Interpretation

Langmuir: Thomas, 'detector' of ritual murder

Gavin Langmuir shows how Thomas pieces together rumours and testimonies to produce, after the fact, the first narrative of Jewish ritual murder — a fantasy destined for a long afterlife.

Source

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Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder

Gavin I. Langmuir — 1984

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Did Jews practise rites involving the murder of children?