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Walram von Jülich was Archbishop of Cologne from 1332 to 1349. He had personally signed orders to protect the Cologne Jewish community against the Black Death well-poisoning libel, was widely circulating Pope Clement VI's protective papal bulls in his archdiocese, and was dying of plague himself when the Cologne mob massacred the community on the night of 23 August 1349.
Read the story →Konrad of Megenberg was a Bavarian cleric and natural philosopher who wrote a Latin treatise during the 1349 Black Death arguing on medical and theological grounds that the well-poisoning accusations against European Jews were factually false. The treatise circulated in fewer than two dozen manuscript copies and had substantially no documented effect on the simultaneous massacres.
Read the story →Konrad of Megenberg was a Regensburg canon and natural-philosophy writer who composed a tract in 1350 explicitly refuting the claim that Jews had caused the Black Death by poisoning wells. He used Aristotelian-medical argument against the popular conspiracy theory that had been justifying the Rhineland pogroms.
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