Communities of Violence - Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition

Zusatztext "Nirenberg has ventured unescorted down all manner of unexplored paths.... This is a highly sophisticated piece of work, clever in the best sense of the word, rich and variegated, a treasure-house of perceptive scholarship, sensitively nuanced, beautifully controlled, a delight to handle and a joy to read." ---Peter Linehan, Medium Aevum Informationen zum Autor David NirenbergWith a new preface by the author Klappentext 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 inherited ideologies and prejudices, but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities. Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history, kingship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: David Nirenberg
• Assisted by: David Nirenberg (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2015
• EAN: 9780691165769
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16576-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europa, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, HISTORY / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Violence in society, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Violence and abuse in society