Communities of Violence
Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages - Updated Edition
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Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27520883M
- ISBN-139780691165769
- ISBN-100691165769
- OCLC Control Number894625464
- Amazon0691165769
Classifications
- LCCD164.N57 2015
Description
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.
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