The intolerant Middle Ages: a reader
In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as…
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- Full title :The intolerant Middle Ages : a reader / edited by Eugene Smelyansky.
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In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval minorities.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781487533342, 1487533330, 9781487533335, 1487533349
- oclc:on1150883789
- LC Classification:BR1600
- Dewey Decimal:272.09409/02
Table of Contents
Precursors and origins -- Anti-Judaism and persecution of the Jews -- Heresy and inquisition -- External others: contacts, intolerance, and the making of medieval Europe -- Interreligious violence in the Mediterranean -- People on the margins of medieval society -- Disease and disability in medieval Europe -- From the holy to the sinful: attitudes toward women -- The control of sexuality
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