Dear All
see also J.M. McCulloh, 'Jewish Ritual Murder: William of Norwich, Thomas
of Monmouth and the early Dissemination of the Myth', Speculum 72: 3
(1997) - dealing obviously with a different boy, but suggesting some
alterations to Langmuir's overall thesis about medieval antisemitism.
cheers
john arnold
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, CLUSE CHRISTOPH wrote:
>
> > > * Hugh of Lincoln (1255) - this is 'Little' Hugh, a boy supposedly killed
> > > by Jews
>
> On Hugh of Lincoln, see the seminal account by Gavin I. Langmuir,
> 'The Knight's Tale of Young Hugh of Lincoln,' *Speculum* 47 (1972),
> 459-482. On his shrine, David Stocker, 'The shrine of little St.
> Hugh,' in: *Medieval Art and Architecture at Lincoln Cathedral*, eds.
> T. A. Heslop, V. A. Sekules, British Archaeological Association
> Conference Transactions 8, for 1982 (London 1986), pp. 109-117.
> The ballads of little St. Hugh have been treated by Mary Diane
> McCabe, 'A Critical Study of Some Traditional Religious Ballads'
> (unpublished M.A. thesis, Durham/UK, 1980), pp. 277-298, 397-430.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
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