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- Title
Forgotten old Czech Source for the Events in Pulkau in 1338.
- Authors
Soukup, Daniel
- Abstract
This short study analyzes an old-Czech poem Kterak Židé mucili Boží tĕlo/How Jews Tortured Corpus Christi that represents a unique and until now only scarcely used source about the alleged host desecration in Pulkau in 1338 and about the subsequent persecution of the Jewish communities in Austria and surrounding regions. The paper will first introduce the text itself, describe its codicological inscription, mention two preserved versions of the text and point out the inspirational sources and inter-textual relations of the poem. Via the genre and formal characteristic analysis of the poem the study shows that although it is a text that describes the events in Pulkau in the fullest detail it is primarily not a historiographical text but it is a text with the function of exemplum. It is a composition full of topoi/loci communes; therefore it is a sermonic, religiously educative and apologetic text.
- Subjects
HOW Jews Tortured Corpus Christi (Poem); JEWISH poetry; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); JEWISH literature; HOST desecration accusation; SACRILEGE
- Publication
Judaica Olomucensia, 2013, Vol 1, p141
- ISSN
1805-9139
- Publication type
Poetry Review