| | Amazon.com: Trent 1475 : Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial: Books: R. Po-chia Hsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The account of the conflict between Trent's prince-bishop, who wanted the canonization of the alleged child martyr, and the papal commissioner sent to investigate irregularities in the judicial procedures highlights the fraudulent nature of the charges. |
 | | In the Trent case, the local bishop started a semi-idolatrous cult around the two year old boy who was allegedly murdered, starting a shrine to the Blessed Simon Martyr of Trent, encouraging poetry and paintings in his honor, and spreading rumors about miracles created by the boy. |
 | | Thought-provoking, precise and well written, Trent 1475 brings you back to a time and place where torture was the popular recourse during judicial interrogations, where the Jewish population was misunderstood and badly treated, where torture was so brutal that people would lie and condem themselves just to avoid being brutalized. |
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