On Thursday November 9, Miri Rubin (Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London), will lecture on “The Child Murder Accusation against the Jews of Norwich: Meaning, Memory and Legacy,” at 7:00 PM in Memorial Lounge (Waterman Bldg). The talk, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust Studies, with support from the Kinsler Endowment for Holocaust Studies at UVM and from the Department of History. It is also part of the CAS Medieval Studies Lecture Series.
This talk relates to Professor Rubin’s work as the editor and translator of Thomas of Monmouth’s The Life and Passion of William of Norwich (Penguin, 2014). This mid- twelfth-century text is generally regarded as the earliest accusation that Jews annually murdered a Christian child, the seed of what eventually became known as the “blood libel.” Professor Rubin will bring her unmatched erudition to an analysis of the meaning, memory and legacy of this “chilling, highly significant” text.
