What were the consequences of anti-Jewish sermons, rumours about black magic and treatises against heretics? The verbal attacks against minorities certainly contributed to the persecuting atmosphere of premodern Europe, but what were their connections to acts of violence and other concrete forms of persecution? In the workshop From words to deeds?, researchers from the Universities of Greifswald, Tampere and Turku present their latest research on polemical accusations and violence and discuss it with Prof. John H. Arnold from the University of Cambridge.
The workshop is organised by the project PERSECUTIO, funded by the Research Council of Finland and hosted at the University of Turku in collaboration with Trivium – Tampere center for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Please register for the participation in situ or online: https://sites.utu.fi/persecutio/events/workshop-from-words-to-deeds/
Program
14.00, Christian Krötzl, Tampere
Opening Words
Session 1. Chair: Marika Räsänen
14.15 Jussi Hanska, Tampere
Preachers and Anti-Judaic Violence: The Case of ”Saint” Hugh of Lincoln
14.45 Cordelia Heß, Greifswald
Blood libel in Sweden – the transmission of anti-Jewish knowledge in Latin texts
15.15 Tiago Queimada e Silva, Turku
They burnt them in the streets of the city three days on end’: the massacre of the ”new Christians” in Lisbon, 1506
Break 15.45-16.15
Session 2. Chair: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
16.15 Jenni Kuuliala, Turku
Black magic and bodily harm: Inflicting suffering and making sense of it in Renaissance Italy
16.45 Reima Välimäki, Turku
Defining causal mechanisms between polemics and persecution
17.15. John H. Arnold, Cambridge
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