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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 eighteen Jewish men and one Jewish woman on the charge of ritual murder-the killing of a Christian child in order to use his blood in Jewish religious rites. In this engrossing book, R. Po-chia Hsia reconstructs the events of this tragic persecution and sets the trial and its documents in the historical context of medieval blood libel.
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