Communities of violence : persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages / David Nirenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nirenberg, David, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Crimes against--Europe--History.

Minorities.

Persecution--Europe.

Persecution.

Civilization, Medieval.

Racism--Europe--History.

Racism.

Violence--Europe--History.

Violence.

Europe--Race relations.

Europe.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

2nd printing, with corrections.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 inherite

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

PART ONE: Cataclysmic Violence: France and the Crown of Aragon

Chapter 2: FRANCE, SOURCE OF THE TROUBLES: SHEPHERDS' CRUSADE AND LEPERS' PLOT (1320, 1321)

Chapter 3: CRUSADE AND MASSACRE IN ARAGON (1320)

Chapter 4: LEPERS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, AND POISON IN THE CROWN (1321)

PART TWO: Systemic Violence: Power, Sex, and Religion

Chapter 5: SEX AND VIOLENCE BETWEEN MAJORITY AND MINORITY

Chapter 6: MINORITIES CONFRONT EACH OTHER: VIOLENCE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND JEWS

Chapter 7: THE TWO FACES OF SACRED VIOLENCE

Epilogue: THE BLACK DEATH AND BEYOND

CHAPTER SIX: Minorities Confront Each Other: Violence between Muslims and JewsCHAPTER SEVEN: The Two Faces of Sacred Violence; EPILOGUE: The Black Death and Beyond; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-279) and index.

ISBN:

9781299051195

1299051197

9781400821945

1400821940

OCLC:

845249459

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00423 hdl