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Medieval Literature

Medieval literature records the nickname Bob by the 14th century, with instances found in Geoffrey Chaucer's corpus.

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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 . ...

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When was the name Bob first recorded in historical documents?

derives from the medieval hypocorism of Robert and appears in documentary and literary records from the Middle Ages onward, with the surname form attested as early as 1196 in and the nickname/given-na...