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Biological-Racial Thinking

The development of biological-racial thinking in medieval Christian texts, including the use of medicalized language to describe Jews as biologically different and impure.

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How did medieval Christian texts portray Jews as sexual deviants and what sources propagated these myths?

as sexually deviant by feminizing Jewish men, pathologizing Jewish sexual practices, and inventing bodily myths (such as Jewish male menstruation) that marked Jews as morally and biologically other . ...