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

• Autore: Nirenberg David <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c1998
• Edizione: 2nd printing, with corrections.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/0094
• Soggetto topico: Minorities - Crimes against - Europe - History; Persecution - Europe; Civilization, Medieval; Racism - Europe - History; Violence - Europe - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Race relations; Europe Ethnic relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Communities of violence
• ISBN: 1-299-05119-7; 1-4008-2194-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247894603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno