TY  - GEN
T1  - Trent 1475 : stories of a ritual murder trial
A1  - Hsia, R. Po-chia, 1955-
A2  - Berger, Pearl
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Published [by] Yale University Press in cooperation with Yeshiva University Library
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn884499420
AB  - 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 all eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman living in Trent on the charge of ritual murder - the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites. Under judicial torture and imprisonment, the men confessed and were condemned to death; their women-folk, who had been kept under house arrest with their children, denounced the men under torture and eventually converted to Christianity. A papal hearing in Rome about possible judicial misconduct in Trent made the trial widely known and led to a wave of anti-Jewish propaganda and other accusations of ritual murder against the Jews. In this engrossing book, R. Pochia Hsia reconstructs the events of this tragic persecution, drawing principally on the Yeshiva Manuscript, a detailed trial record made by authorities in Trent to justify their execution of the Jews and to bolster the case for the canonization of "little Martyr Simon." Hsia depicts the Jewish victims (whose testimonies contain fragmentary stories of their tragic lives as well as forced confessions of kidnap, torture, and murder), the prosecuting magistrates, the hostile witnesses, and the few Christian neighbors who tried in vain to help the Jews. Setting the trial and its documents in the historical context of medieval blood libel, Hsia vividly portrays how fact and fiction can be blurred, how judicial torture can be couched in icy orderliness and impersonality, and how religious rites can be interpreted as ceremonies of barbarism.
OP  - 173
CN  - BM585.2 .H75 1992eb
SN  - 9780300161892
SN  - 0300161891
SN  - 9780300051063
SN  - 0300051069
SN  - 9780300068726
SN  - 0300068727
KW  - Simon, : of Trent, : -1475.
KW  - Simon, : of Trent, : -1475
KW  - Simon : von Trient : -1475
KW  - Simon (von Trient)
KW  - Blood accusation : Italy : Trento.
KW  - Jews : Persecutions : Italy : Trento.
KW  - Trento (Italy) : Ethnic relations.
KW  - Trient : Geschichte : Geschichte 1475.
KW  - Meurtre rituel : Italie : Trente.
KW  - Juifs : Persécutions : Italie : Trente.
KW  - Blood accusation
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Jews : Persecutions
KW  - Italy : Trento
KW  - Pogrom
KW  - Judenverfolgung
KW  - Ritualmord
KW  - Falsche Verdächtigung
KW  - Trient
KW  - Juden
KW  - Bloedbeschuldiging.
KW  - Joden.
KW  - Processen (rechtspraak)
KW  - Juden.
KW  - HISTORY / General.
KW  - Geschichte 1475.
KW  - Geschichte : 1475
KW  - Jews : Italy : Trento : Persecutions
KW  - Simon : of : d. 1475
KW  - Simon : of Trent : d. 1475
KW  - Trento : Ethnic relations
KW  - Trento (Italy) : Ethnic relations
ER  -