Toward a definition of antisemitism /
Gavin I. Langmuir.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1990.
- 1 online resource (x, 417 pages)
"Published with the cooperation of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles"--Added title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-400) and indexes.
Majority history and postbiblical Jews -- Tradition, history, and prejudice -- Anti-Judaism as the necessary preparation for antisemitism -- The transformation of anti-Judaism -- Doubt in Christendom -- "Judei nostri" and the beginning of Capetian legislation -- "Tanquam servi" : the change in Jewish status in French law about 1200 -- Peter the Venerable : defense against doubts -- Thomas of Monmouth : detector of ritual murder -- The knight's tale of young Hugh of Lincoln -- Ritual cannibalism -- Historiographic crucifixion -- Medieval antisemitism -- Toward a definition of antisemitism.