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Autore |
Nirenberg David <1964-> |
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Titolo |
Communities of violence [[electronic resource] ] : persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages / / David Nirenberg |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-05119-7 |
1-4008-2194-0 |
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Edizione |
[2nd printing, with corrections.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Minorities - Crimes against - Europe - History |
Persecution - Europe |
Civilization, Medieval |
Racism - Europe - History |
Violence - Europe - History |
Electronic books. |
Europe Race relations |
Europe Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-279) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 inherite |
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