Staging martyrdom in the trial of El Niño de La Guardia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Duque, Adriano
• Is Part Of: Journal of medieval Iberian studies. Volume 10:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 88
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Child sacrifice -- prurient gaze -- pig sacrifice -- malpractice -- Jewish; Iberians -- History -- Periodicals; Civilization; Iberians; Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- 711-1516 -- Periodicals; Portugal -- Civilization -- To 1500 -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Europe -- Iberian Peninsula; Portugal; Spain; History; Periodicals; 946.000902
• DOI: 10.1080/17546559.2016.1225225
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-6559

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The ritual sacrifice of the child of La Guardia in 1491 can be seen as a lens to examine anti-Jewish sentiment in fifteenth-century Castile. This article argues that the deposition made by the Jews of La Guardia hinged on a triple set of interpretations that tended to represent the sacrifice of the child of La Guardia as a mockery of pig-slaughtering sacrifices but also as a representation of Jewish medical malpractice. The article further connects the representation of the child of La Guardia with the image of the crucified monk and with the " Vueltas de San Antón ", a festival in which a child was crowned as the king of the pigs.