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Record Nr.

UNISA996247894603316

Autore

Nirenberg David <1964->

Titolo

Communities of violence [[electronic resource] ] : persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages / / David Nirenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-299-05119-7

1-4008-2194-0

Edizione

[2nd printing, with corrections.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/0094

Soggetti

Minorities - Crimes against - Europe - History

Persecution - Europe

Civilization, Medieval

Racism - Europe - History

Violence - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Race relations

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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