The "Jew in the Latrine": Exploring the Transmission of an Early German Anti-Jewish Narrative.
An anti-Jewish short narrative, here labelled the "Jew in the Latrine," was very popular in the Middle Ages and early modern period, appearing in a range of genres in Latin and the vernacular. A Jew falls into a sewer on the Sabbath day and, fearing desecration, neither extracts himself nor permits...
| Publicado en: | Medieval Encounters Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 33 - 72 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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