Title Blood libel : the ritual murder accusation at the limit of Jewish history / Hannah R. Johnson.

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Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2012]

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Contents	The ethical dimensions of historical interpretation: the blood libel as limit case -- Thomas of Monmouth and the juridical discourse of ritual murder -- Moralization and method in Gavin Langmuir's history of antisemitism -- On being implicated: Israel Yuval and the new history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations -- Beyond implication: the Ariel Toaff affair and the question of complicity.
Summary	"The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife in the public sphere, where Sarah Palin's 2011 gaffe is only the latest reminder of its power to excite controversy. Blood Libel is the first book-length study to analyze the recent historiography of the ritual murder accusation and to consider these debates in the context of intellectual and cultural history as well as methodology. Hannah R. Johnson articulates how ethics shapes methodological decisions in the study of the accusation and how questions about methodology, in turn, pose ethical problems of interpretation and understanding. Examining recent debates over the scholarship of historians such as Gavin Langmuir, Israel Yuval, and Ariel Toaff, Johnson argues that these discussions highlight an ongoing paradigm shift that seeks to reimagine questions of responsibility by deliberately refraining from a discourse of moral judgment and blame in favor of an emphasis on historical contingencies and hostile intergroup dynamics."--Provided by publisher.
Language	English.
Subject	Blood accusation -- Europe -- History.
	Jews -- Persecutions -- Europe -- History.
	Antisemitism -- Europe -- History.
	Christianity and antisemitism.
	Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
	Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	HISTORY -- General.
	Antisemitism. (OCoLC)fst00810769
	Blood accusation. (OCoLC)fst00834641
	Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00859599
	Christianity and antisemitism. (OCoLC)fst00859644
	Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
	Jews -- Persecutions. (OCoLC)fst00983322
	Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
	Antisemitisme.
	Bloedbeschuldiging.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Blood libel Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, c2012. 9780472118359 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2012005027
ISBN	9780472028436 electronic book
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.4499528

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