Detailed analysis of the remains of seventeen skeletons found in a well in Norwich indicates that they were amongst the victims of the massacre of the Jewish community in Norwich in 1190.
The discovery was reported by the Times of Israel at DNA analysis suggests bodies found in UK well are victims of 1190 antisemitic attack and in considerably more detail on Live Science at 17 people found in a medieval well in England were victims of an antisemitic massacre, DNA reveals
The massacre came about as participants in the Third Crusade prepared to set off for the Holy Land and was not unique - the one at the same time in York is better known today. As Norman Cohn pointed out in The Pursuit of the Millenium such attacks on Jewish communities on the eve of a Crusade appear to have occurred as expressions of popularist fervour and also resentment at Jewish moneylenders, and were usually deplored by the ecclesiastical and secular hierarchies of the time.
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