Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150-1200

by Heather Blurton

William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism. His story is first told in Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, a work that elaborates the bizarre allegation, invented in twelfth-century England, that Jews...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253922
• ISBN13: 9780812253924
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"