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In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed miraculously. The allegation fostered tensions between Christians and Jews that would explode into violence across Germany and Austria. And pilgrimage shrines were built on the sites where supposed desecrations had led to miracles or to anti-Semitic persecutions. Exploring the legends, cult forms, imagery, and architecture of these host-miracle shrines, Pilgrimage and Pogrom reveals how they not only reflected but also actively shaped Christian anti-Judaism in the two centuries before the Reformation. Mitchell B. Merback studies surviving relics and eucharistic cult statues, painted miracle cycles and altarpieces, propaganda broadsheets, and more in an effort to explore how accusation and legend were transformed into propaganda and memory. Merback shows how persecution and violence became interdependent with normative aspects of Christian piety, from pilgrimage to prayers for the dead, infusing them with the ideals of crusade. Valiantly reconstructing the cult environments created for these sacred places, Pilgrimage and Pogrom is an illuminating look at Christian-Jewish relations in premodern Europe.

Christian religion --- religious history --- antisemitism --- Art --- Christian shrines --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Christianity and antisemitism --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Christianisme et antisémitisme --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- 296*811 --- 248.153.8 <43> --- 248.153.8 <436> --- 248.159.22 --- -Christian shrines --- -Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- -Christianity and antisemitism --- -Antisemitism and Christianity --- Christianity and other religions --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Holy places, Christian --- Shrines, Christian --- Shrines --- Antisemitisme--in oudheid en middeleeuwen --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen)--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen)--Oostenrijk --- Devotie tot de Heilige Eucharistie --- Judaism --- -Antisemitisme--in oudheid en middeleeuwen --- 248.159.22 Devotie tot de Heilige Eucharistie --- 248.153.8 <436> Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen)--Oostenrijk --- 248.153.8 <43> Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen)--Duitsland voor 1945 en na 1989 --- 296*811 Antisemitisme--in oudheid en middeleeuwen --- -248.159.22 Devotie tot de Heilige Eucharistie --- Antisemitism and Christianity --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Christianisme et antisémitisme --- Christian holy places --- Christian shrines - Germany --- Christian shrines - Austria --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Germany - History --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Austria - History --- Christianity and antisemitism - Germany - History --- Christianity and antisemitism - Austria - History --- Eucharistie --- Miracles --- Allemagne --- Autriche --- Christelijke kunst