Communities of Violence Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

Name: Communities of Violence Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780691058894

ISBN-10: 069105889X

ISBN-13: 9780691058894

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Nirenberg

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In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia). He argues that these attacks--ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews, Muslims, lepers, and prostitutes--were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Historical Background



France, Source of the Troubles: Shepherds' Crusade and Lepers' Plot (1320, 1321)



Crusade and Massacre in Aragon (1320)



Lepers, Jews, Muslims, and Poison in the Crown (1321)



Sex and Violence between Majority and Minority



Minorities Confront Each Other: Violence between Muslims and Jews



The Two Faces of Sacred Violence


Epilogue: The Black Death and Beyond


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index