{"product_id":"the-intolerant-middle-ages-9781487524128","title":"The Intolerant Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making \u003ci\u003eThe Intolerant Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval minorities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book contains a large number of interesting documents and should prove convenient for teaching undergraduate courses on its particular thematic sections. It will be particularly useful for courses on gender and sexuality.\" -- Lola Sharon Davidson, University of Technology Sydney * \u003cem\u003eParergon\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e“Smelyansky has chosen an excellent set of texts, including some that are unexpected and therefore especially interesting … The care with which Smelyansky treats his subjects, the persecutors and the persecuted, is admirable.” -- Deeana Copeland Klepper, Boston University * \u003cem\u003eSpeculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Illustrations   Introduction   Chapter 1: Precursors and Origins   1. Christians Accused of Participating in Scandalous Rituals  2. The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua  3. Emperor Constantine Condemns Arianism  4. Saint Augustine on the Grounds for Religious Persecution 5. Christianity Triumphant: The Theodosian Code on Christianity and Paganism   Chapter 2: Anti-Judaism and Persecution of the Jews   6. “Slay Them Not”: Saint Augustine on the Jews 7. Anti-Jewish Legislation from the Visigothic Code  8. The Massacre in Mainz at the Beginning of the First Crusade  9. Blood Libel: The Murder of William of Norwich  10. A Papal Response: Gregory X against the Blood Libel  11. Jewish Woman in a Christian Miracle Story  12. King Otakar II Promises Royal Protection to the Jews in Bohemia and Austria 13. Well-Poisoning Accusations against the Jews  14. Massacre of the Jews in Strasbourg   Chapter 3: Heresy and Inquisition   15. Heresy in the Carolingian Word: Gottschalk of Orbais  16. Guibert of Nogent and the Heretics of Soissons  17. Hildegard of Bingen Preaches against Heresy  18. A Cathar Origin Story in the Testimony of Arnaud Sicre  19. Origins of the Waldensians  20. Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council Concerning Heresy  21. Inquisitor Bernard Gui at Work 22. Heretical Tricks: Inquisitor Nicholas Eymerich on the Art of Interrogation  23. Individual Resistance: Bernard Clergue  24. Cooperation and Resistance: Arnaud Sicre Infiltrates a Heretical Group  25. Papal Prohibitions against Beguines and Beghards at the Council of Vienne  26. The Fruits of Clerical Imagination: A Heretical Orgy  27. Persecutions of Waldensians in Late Medieval German Cities   Chapter 4: External Others: Contacts, Intolerance, and the Making of Medieval Europe   28. Carolingian Conquest of Saxony: Two Perspectives  29. Gerald of Wales on the Irish  30. Papal Blessing for Henry II’s Conquest of Ireland 31. Keeping the Peace after the Conquest: Statutes of the Parliament of Dublin  32. Medieval Europe Old and New: Otto of Freising Describes Northern Italy and Hungary  33. Duke of Lithuania on the Teutonic Order   Chapter 5: Interreligious Violence in the Mediterranean   34. The Martyrs of Cordoba  35. Depictions of Muslims in The Song of Roland  36. Ibn Jubayr on Sicily under the Christian Rule  37. Interfaith Coexistence in Crusader Jerusalem   38. Coexistence and Exclusion in the Siete Partidas    39. Pope Innocent III Forbids the Venetian Merchants to Trade with the Muslims   40. Frederick II’s Trade Agreement with Tunisia  41. Accusations against the Genoese Merchants in Service of the Mamluk Sultan   Chapter 6:  People on the Margins of Medieval Society   42. Agobard of Lyon: On the Baptism of Jewish Slaves  43. Poverty as Piety: The Rule of Saint Francis   44. Critique of the Mendicant Friars: William of St-Amour’s On the Dangers of the Final Days  45. Medieval Serfdom and Manumission   46. Punishments for Impregnating a Female Slave in Genoa   47. Discrimination against the Poor in Siena during the Famine of 1329  48. Living in Poverty in Florence  49. The World Turned Upside Down: Social Anxiety during and after the Plague  50. Wage Control after the Plague: Ordinance of the Laborers, 1349  51. Ordinances against the “Jews, Lepers, and Swine” and the Poor in Late Medieval London   52. Christine de Pizan on the Virtues of Toleration   Chapter 7: Disease and Disability in Medieval Europe   53. Disability and Charity in Piers Plowman  54. False Disability on the Streets of London  55. Rules of the Maison-Dieu in Pontoise  56. Physician Gilbert the Englishman on the Symptoms of Leprosy  57. Humbert of Romans Preaches to the Lepers  58. Ritual of Exclusion for a Leper  59. The Leper Plot against Christendom, 1321   Chapter 8: From the Holy to the Sinful: Attitudes towards Women   60. A Prostitute Saint: Saint Mary of Egypt 61. The Trial of Thiota, A False Prophetess  62. The Life of Christina of Markyate  63. Women in the Sicilian Laws of Frederick II  64. Women and the Ideals of Courtly Love  65. Religious Life of Margery Kempe  66. Marital Problems: An Innkeeper’s Wife Leaves Him  67. Bernardino of Siena Preaches on Marriage   Chapter 9: The Control of Sexuality   68. Laws of Justinian Concerning Same-Sex Acts and Blasphemy  69. A Cross-Dressing Saint: Marina\/Marinus  70. Punishments for Illicit Sexuality from a Medieval Penitential  71. Prostitution and Religious Reform in Prague  72. Illegal Prostitution in London  73. Confession of a Muslim Prostitute in Valencia  74. Confession of Arnaud of Verniolle  75. The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer  76. Testimony of Rolandina Roncaglia  77. Testimony of Eleanor\/John Rykener ","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409154449751,"sku":"9781487524128","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487524128.jpg?v=1730505667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-intolerant-middle-ages-9781487524128","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}