Communities of Violence (eBook)

Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition

David Nirenberg (Autor)

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2015
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6623-6 (ISBN)

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David Nirenberg is the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he is also dean of the Division of the Social Sciences and the founding director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society.

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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, kinship, sex, money, and disease, and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society. Nirenberg's readings of archival and literary sources demonstrates how violence set the terms and limits of coexistence for medieval minorities. The particular and contingent nature of this coexistence is underscored by the book's juxtapositions--some systematic (for example, that of the Crown of Aragon with France, Jew with Muslim, medieval with modern), and some suggestive (such as African ritual rebellion with Catalan riots). Throughout, the book questions the applicability of dichotomies like tolerance versus intolerance to the Middle Ages, and suggests the limitations of those analyses that look for the origins of modern European persecutory violence in the medieval past.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2015
• Vorwort: David Nirenberg
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: adultery • Al-Andalus • Alfonso X of Castile • Aljama • Ambiguity • Ambivalence • anti-Judaism • anti-miscegenation laws • Antisemitism (authors) • Apologeticus • Apostasy • Archdeacon • Aversive Racism • Bernard Gui • black legend • blasphemy • blood libel • brothel • Bruno Bettelheim • Cagot • Carcassonne • Carlo Ginzburg • Castile (historical region) • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • catalans • Catharism • Catholic Monarchs • Christendom • Christianity • Conversion to Judaism • Converso • Counter-Reformation • Criticism of Judaism • Crown of Aragon • crucifixion of Jesus • damnation • Demonization • dinah • Diocletianic Persecution • Ecstasies (book) • edict • Edict of Expulsion • Emirate of Granada • Europe's Inner Demons • Exchange of women • Excommunication • Exegesis • Extortion • famine • forced conversion • Fuero • Gesta Romanorum • God • God Knows (novel) • Good and evil • Good Friday • hatred • Heresy • historian • Historikerstreit • Historiography • holy week • Host desecration • human sacrifice • Ideology • infidel • interdependence • Interfaith dialogue • Islam • Islamic–Jewish relations • Jewish History • Jewish Studies • Jews • Jizya • Judaism • Kabbalah • Ketubah • Kristallnacht • Leprosy • Literature • Lleida • Lord • Maimonides • Marc Bloch • marrano • Medieval Inquisition • Middle Ages • miscegenation • Modernity • Monopoly on Violence • Morisco • Mudéjar • Muslim • Muslims (nationality) • Narbona • narrative • necromancy • On Religion • Payot • peasant • People of the Book • perfidy • Periodization • Persecution • Pogrom • Polemic • Politique • pollution • Porcelain • Powers of Horror • procession • Prostitution • Protestantism • Puritans • Pythagoreanism • Rabbi • Racism • Rashi • Rassenschande • Religion • Religious Community • Religious violence • Rhineland massacres • Rice University • Robbery • Roman Ghetto • Roman Inquisition • Royal touch • sacred history • scapegoating • Secularism • Seigneur • Seminar • Sermon • Sharia • Shepherds' Crusade (1251) • Sicut Judaeis • Slavery • Society of Jesus • sodomy • southern France • Stoning • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Tax Collector • The City of God (book) • Theft • The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs • The Name of the Rose • The Other Hand • The Plague • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion • The Uses of Enchantment • Toleration • tommaso campanella • Torture • Toulouse • usury • V. • Vassal • Vindicta Salvatoris • Violence and the Sacred • Walter Benjamin • war • Warrant for Genocide • Well poisoning • Women in Islam • Writing • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6623-5 / 1400866235
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6623-6 / 9781400866236