It's always easier to hate someone you've never met. That's as true for medieval antisemitism as it is for contemporary British and US politics. Part XXIV of our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages.
Medieval Scandinavia was riddled with anti-Semitic imagery. Odd thing though: no Jews ever lived there. Part XXIII in our ongoing series on Race, Racism and the Middle Ages, by Richard Cole.