Talk:Rhineland massacres

Latest comment: 6 months ago by 173.70.8.32 in topic Very insensitive

"goose incident" edit

i absolutely must know what the "goose incident" is that was mentioned in the last sentence of the "Catholic Church response" section of the article

googling "Albert of Aachen "goose incident"" only shows results that copy this page verbatim.

anyone have any legit answers? Dankdevice (talk) 15:08, 27 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

answered my own question: removing quotation marks from my google search reveals results! from the wiki page for Count Emicho: "Emicho's army attracted many unusual followers, including a group who worshipped a goose they believed to be filled with the Holy Spirit" Dankdevice (talk) 15:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Very insensitive edit

For Jews, the 1st crusade was maybe the worst murder of our people in that millennium. It is still mentioned in Jewish liturgy, and to be an apologist for it as parts of this article were, Is incredibly insensitive. Pretty much all of the insensitivities were in the section described as the Jewish response, which is the reason for my edit Jewfurious (talk) 00:38, 29 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

I've reverted, as I think you are misreading the section, which is well referenced to specialist scholarship, much of it no doubt by Jewish historians. Johnbod (talk) 02:07, 29 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
"the worst murder of our people in that millennium" An 11th-century crusade as the worst murder of Jews in the 2nd millennium? And what do you think the Holocaust was, some kind of trivial event? Dimadick (talk) 05:59, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

Commenting as the author of that portion of the article (and a Jew myself) - this text was written in conjunction with University coursework for a class studying the First Crusades. It is in no way attempting to indict the Rhineland Jews of any wrongdoing in this historical event; it is simply compiling scholarship done on the event's contemporary assessment and its reverberations in Jewish hermeneutics in the centuries following. Thanks for reverting it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.8.32 (talk) 20:16, 12 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Metz or Mainz edit

The sidebar includes an illustration of a massacre in Metz and lists Metz as one of the locations of the Rhineland massacres. The article identifies Mainz, a major city in the Rhineland, as one of the sites of the Rhineland massacres, with a brief mention of an earlier massacre in the French town of Metz. Sentience (talk) 03:37, 28 September 2023 (UTC)Reply