LEADER 03384nam 2200637Ia 450 001 996247894603316 005 20201013194617.0 010 $a1-299-05119-7 010 $a1-4008-2194-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396637 035 $a(EBL)1108136 035 $a(OCoLC)845249459 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083986 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083986 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163447 035 $a(PQKB)11322534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1108136 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396637 100 $a19990216d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommunities of violence$b[electronic resource] $epersecution of minorities in the Middle Ages /$fDavid Nirenberg 205 $a2nd printing, with corrections. 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-03375-7 311 $a0-691-05889-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-279) and index. 327 $tINTRODUCTION --$tChapter 1: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND --$tPART ONE: Cataclysmic Violence: France and the Crown of Aragon --$tChapter 2: FRANCE, SOURCE OF THE TROUBLES: SHEPHERDS' CRUSADE AND LEPERS' PLOT (1320, 1321) --$tChapter 3: CRUSADE AND MASSACRE IN ARAGON (1320) --$tChapter 4: LEPERS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, AND POISON IN THE CROWN (1321) --$tPART TWO: Systemic Violence: Power, Sex, and Religion --$tChapter 5: SEX AND VIOLENCE BETWEEN MAJORITY AND MINORITY --$tChapter 6: MINORITIES CONFRONT EACH OTHER: VIOLENCE BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND JEWS --$tChapter 7: THE TWO FACES OF SACRED VIOLENCE --$tEpilogue: THE BLACK DEATH AND BEYOND 327 $aCHAPTER 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 330 $aIn 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 606 $aMinorities$xCrimes against$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aPersecution$zEurope 606 $aCivilization, Medieval 606 $aRacism$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aViolence$zEurope$xHistory 607 $aEurope$xRace relations 607 $aEurope$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMinorities$xCrimes against$xHistory. 615 0$aPersecution 615 0$aCivilization, Medieval. 615 0$aRacism$xHistory. 615 0$aViolence$xHistory. 676 $a305.8/0094 700 $aNirenberg$b David$f1964-$0140650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247894603316 996 $aCommunities of violence$9500980 997 $aUNISA