Minority Influences In Medieval Society
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Author |
: Nora Berend |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2021-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000370195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000370194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minority Influences in Medieval Society by : Nora Berend
This book investigates how minorities contributed to medieval society, comparing these contributions to majority society’s perceptions of the minority. In this volume the contributors define ‘minority’ status as based on a group’s relative position in power relations, that is, a group with less power than the dominant group(s). The chapters cover both what modern historians call ‘religious’ and ‘ethnic’ minorities (including, for example, Muslims in Latin Europe, German-speakers in Central Europe, Dutch in England, Jews and Christians in Egypt), but also address contemporary medieval definitions; medieval writers distinguished between ‘believers’ and ‘infidels’, between groups speaking different languages and between those with different legal statuses. The contributors reflect on patterns of influence in terms of what majority societies borrowed from minorities, the ways in which minorities contributed to society, the mechanisms in majority society that triggered positive or negative perceptions, and the function of such perceptions in the dynamics of power. The book highlights structural and situational similarities as well as historical contingency in the shaping of minority influence and majority perceptions. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.
Author |
: Nora Berend |
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Total Pages |
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Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1159432334 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Special Issue: Minority Influences in Medieval Society by : Nora Berend
Author |
: Ana Echevarria |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1004221058 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Religious Minorities in Medieval Societies by : Ana Echevarria
Author |
: David Nirenberg |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2015-05-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400866236 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400866235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communities of Violence by : David Nirenberg
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.
Author |
: Nora Berend |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2001-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521651851 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521651859 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis At the Gate of Christendom by : Nora Berend
Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that different degrees of exclusion and integration characterized medieval non-Christian status in the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary between 1000 and 1300. A complex explanation of non-Christian status emerges from the analysis of their economic, social, legal and religious positions and roles. Existence on the frontier with the nomadic world led to the formulation of a frontier ideology, and to anxiety about Hungary's detachment from Christendom, which affected policies towards non-Christians. The study also succeeds in integrating central European history with the study of the medieval world, while challenging such current concepts in medieval studies as frontier societies, persecution and tolerance, ethnicity and 'the other'.
Author |
: Jeffrey Richards |
Publisher |
: Burns & Oates |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105034778717 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex, Dissidence and Damnation by : Jeffrey Richards
"For the authorities in medieval Europe, both secular and ecclesiastical, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. To allow a single heretic to escape just punishment would, it was believed, result in the decay and dissolution of the whole structure of society. So dissent was to be extirpated--initially by reason and argument, then with increasing savagery: by torture and imprisonment, fire and the sword. In examining the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers, and homosexuals, Jeffery Richards has uncovered a common motive for their persecution: supposed sexual aberrance."--Back cover
Author |
: Serge Moscovici |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 614 |
Release |
: 1985-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521246954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521246958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perspectives on Minority Influence by : Serge Moscovici
The contributors to this volume examine social processes in terms of minority influence.
Author |
: Jonathan Phillips |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2022-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000802481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000802485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crusades by : Jonathan Phillips
Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources - narrative, homiletic and documentary - but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Professor Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Iris Shagrir, The Open University of Israel; Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; and Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
Author |
: Leon N. MacCrillis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1026 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:630864898 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The demonization of minority groups in Christian society during the central Middle Ages by : Leon N. MacCrillis
Author |
: Zita Eva Rohr |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2021-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000423044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000423042 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Significant Others by : Zita Eva Rohr
Significant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and nuance with regard to aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures. Both public and nominally private spaces were subject to the important influence of significant others, such as women, ethno-religious minorities, and marginalized and/or difficult-to-categorize men. From their positions within and ties to court cultures, these diverse outsiders - ‘others’ - played crucial roles in maintaining a fluidity essential for the successful sustaining of territorial monarchies and polities, challenging our understanding of the more narrowly defined elite behaviours that shaped premodern dynasties, rulers, societies, and cultures of the past. By exploring a variety of case studies from history and literature, such as Moroccan Jews as dhimmis (‘protected persons’), to bastards, mistresses, and sodomites in ancien régime France, to the transformative role of magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, this volume makes use of empirical and contextually informed research to respond to theoretical questions posed by recent historiography. With a cross-disciplinary approach, this collection of essays will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars interested in the diverse aspects and contexts of premodern ‘others’.