Communities of Violence : : Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition /

Communities of Violence : : Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition / / David Nirenberg.

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Nirenberg, David,
TeilnehmendeR:
Nirenberg, David.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Updated edition with a New preface by the author
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 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
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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