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'They next seized the innocent victim with bloody hands, and raised him from the ground. He was put upon the cross and they competed among themselves in rivalry to kill him' The Life and Passion of William of Norwich gives a remarkable insight into life in a medieval cathedral city, vividly describing the miraculous cures carried out at a shrine to a martyred young boy. But it was no ordinary shrine, for on this spot fervent worshippers gathered around what they believed was the burial-place of a boy murdered by the Jews of Norwich. The Life and Passion of William of Norwich is, as far as is known, the earliest version of what was to become the 'blood libel' that inflamed anti-semitism in England and has haunted Europe ever since. Edited and translated with an introduction by Miri Rubin

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The task of the translator is to make the wind not seen but felt. Miri Robinson accomplishes this in her translation...A readable edition rich with scholarship. -Seth Lere, Times Literary Supplement

The task of the translator is to make the wind not seen but felt. Miri Robinson accomplishes this in her translation...A readable edition rich with scholarship. -Seth Lere, Times Literary Supplement

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Thomas of Monmouth was a monk in Norwich cathedral priory in the mid-twelfth century, but nothing more is known about his life. Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of two books for Penguin: The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages and Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary.

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