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Record Number:
45627
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Boyarin , Adrienne Williams
Contributor(s):
Title:
Jurnepin / Odard of Norwich
Source:
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess. Adrienne Williams Boyarin. Edited by Adrienne Williams Boyarin, translator of Appendix 2 Jurnepin / Odard of Norwich. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pages 231 - 237. Available with a subscription from De Gruyter:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297508-013
Description:
Article Type:
Edition of Text ; Translation
Subject
(See Also)
:
Antisemitism
Children
Circumcision
Jews
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
13
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Table:
Abstract:
Related Resources:
"A second
historia
involves several records concerning the discovery in 1230 of a recently or partially circumcised five-year old Norwich boy, who was found near the River Wensum in 1230. Boyarin highlights the obsessive examination and reexamination of the boy’s genitals, a process that “signals the weakness of the visual identifying markers of Christianness or Jewishness” and complements the uncertainty over identity witnessed by the boy himself (alternately called Jurnepin or Odard) and the Jewish and Christian groups who claimed him for their own (25)."
[From the review written by Kathy Lavezzo of
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
, by Adrienne Williams Boyarin.
Medieval Review
(TMR ID: 22.02.20)
. Reproduced by permission of the
Medieval Review
.]
Author's Affiliation:
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2021.
Language:
English ; Latin
ISSN/ISBN:
9780812252590 (print); 9780812297508 (online)