ILLUSTRATIONS

Map 1 European sites of blood libel court cases.

Fig. 0.1 Der Stürmer, May 1, 1934, the ritual murder issue.

Fig. 0.2 A mural of Simon of Trent on Brückenturm in Frankfurt.

Fig. 0.3 Simon of Trent, late sixteenth-century painting, northern Italy.

Fig. 1.1 William of Norwich, from Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik (1493).

Fig. 1.2 Simon of Trent, from Schedel, Weltchronik (1493).

Fig. 2.1 Pilgrims visiting the relics of Simon (1475).

Fig. 2.2 Tobias capturing Simon, Hystorie von Simon zu Trient published by Albert Kunne (1475).

Fig. 2.3 Simon’s martyrdom with Simon held by Moses, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 2.4 Simon as martyr, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 2.5 Simon on the altar, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 2.6 A 1475 broadsheet with Brunetta.

Fig. 3.1 Simon of Trent, pirated edition of Schedel’s Liber chronicarum (Augsburg,1497).

Fig. 3.2 Antonio Gesti, Martirio di S. Simone di Trento (1589).

Fig. 3.3 Michelangelo Mariani, Il glorioso infante S. Simone (1668).

Fig. 3.4 Passover seder, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 3.5 Examination of Simon’s body after its discovery, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 3.6 Jews put to the flames, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 3.7 Execution of the baptized Jews, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 3.8 Jews conspiring to kidnap a child, with Christian symbols of fish and lamb, Kunne chapbook.

Fig. 3.9 Tobias ordered to kidnap a Christian child, from Tiberino published by Ginther Zainer in Augsburg (1475).

Fig. 3.10 Fresco on the site of Simon’s house in Trent.

Fig. 3.11 “Tobias the Jew snatches the boy,” a painting in Sandomierz, Poland.

Fig. 3.12 Simonine iconography of ritual murder, Sandomierz, Poland.

Fig. 3.13 “Raptus,” from a painting “San Simonino da Trento” by Pietromartino Fiammingo di Anversa (1597).

Fig. 3.14 Northern European iconography stressing murder (1698).

Fig. 4.1 A Jew desecrating a crucifix, from Schedel, Weltchronik.

Fig. 4.2 Burning Jews, from Schedel, Weltchronik.

Fig. 4.3 Pages from Münster’s Cosmography (1567).

Fig. 4.4 First printed illustrated Haggadah, by Thomas Murner (1512).

Fig. 6.1 S. Simonino da Trento, broadside by Giovanni Parone (1643–1730).

Fig. 8.1 Andreas of Rinn, early twentieth-century devotional card.

Fig. 10.1 A drawing of a body found near Tyczyn in 1766.

Fig. 11.1 Story of Simon of Trent in Der Stürmer, 1934.