Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422 by Tzafrir Barzilay

Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422

Tzafrir Barzilay

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Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if not thousands were executed from Aragon and southern France into t...

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