Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria

By Mitchell B. Merback

In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226520196
• ISBN13: 9780226520193
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.8" x 11.2"