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In 1483 Nuremberg, two young men were sentenced to 8 days in prison because "on Ember day last they danced with the Jews at a wedding". What was the crime here, breaking of the Lent or attending a Jewish event?

by /u/terminus-trantor in /r/AskHistorians

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