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Communities of violence : persecution of minorities in the middle ages

Nirenberg, David, 1964- author

Overview

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. In Communities of Violence, David Nirenberg argues that violence in the Middle Ages functioned differently. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon. He argues that these attacks 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. -- from back cover.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Minorities Crimes against Europe History. / Persecution Europe. / Civilization, Medieval. / Racism Europe History. / Violence Europe History. / Ethnic relations. / Minorities Crimes against. / Persecution. / Race relations. / Racism. / Violence. / Europe Race relations. / Europe Ethnic relations. / Europe.
• ISBN: 0691165769, 9780691165769

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