03384nam 2200637Ia 450 99624789460331620201013194617.01-299-05119-71-4008-2194-0(CKB)1000000000396637(EBL)1108136(OCoLC)845249459(SSID)ssj0000083986(PQKBManifestationID)11125677(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083986(PQKBWorkID)10163447(PQKB)11322534(MiAaPQ)EBC1108136(EXLCZ)99100000000039663719990216d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommunities of violence[electronic resource] persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages /David Nirenberg2nd printing, with corrections.Princeton, NJ Princeton University Pressc19981 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-03375-7 0-691-05889-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-279) and index.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 BEYONDCHAPTER 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; INDEXIn 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 inheriteMinoritiesCrimes againstEuropeHistoryPersecutionEuropeCivilization, MedievalRacismEuropeHistoryViolenceEuropeHistoryEuropeRace relationsEuropeEthnic relationsElectronic books.MinoritiesCrimes againstHistory.PersecutionCivilization, Medieval.RacismHistory.ViolenceHistory.305.8/0094Nirenberg David1964-140650MiAaPQBOOK996247894603316Communities of violence500980UNISA