Editing Host desecration (section)

==Medieval accusations against Muslims==
Juan Manuel included in his 1335 anthology ''El Conde Lucanor'' a tale about a treacherous priest who gave the Host to some Muslims, who then proceeded to drag it through the mud while mocking it.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ryan Szpiech|chapter=Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries |editor=S. Davis-Secord|title=Interfaith Relationships and Perceptions of the Other in the Medieval Mediterranean|series=Mediterranean Perspectives |publisher=Springer Nature|year=2021|page=149|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-83997-0_5|isbn=978-3-030-83996-3 }}</ref> In 1465, Christians who opposed King Enrique IV of Castile defamed him by claiming that under his reign, "some Jews and Moors sought on several occasions to obtain a consecrated host" as well as other sacred objects "in order to perform various evil rites to harm our Lord, his holy church, and our faith." Sixteenth-century inquisitors and polemicists likewise accused former Muslims, whom they saw as false converts, of host desecration. For example, the Inquisition of Cuenca charged one former Muslim with purchasing stolen hosts and stringing them up in a latrine (as some former Judaists supposedly did). In a similar accusation, former Muslims allegedly stole a church's hosts and contemptuously threw them onto the ground.<ref name="Freidenreich"/>