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Subject(s)

• Minorities—Crimes against—Europe—History [Browse]
• Persecution—Europe [Browse]
• Civilization, Medieval [Browse]
• Racism—Europe—History [Browse]
• Violence—Europe—History [Browse]
• Europe—Race relations [Browse]
• Europe—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Summary note

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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Bibliographic references

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

Language note

English

Contents

• 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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ISBN

• 1-299-05119-7
• 1-4008-2194-0

OCLC

845249459

Hdl

• 2027/heb00423

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