Table of Contents for Nirenberg, D.: Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages.

Communities of Violence:
Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages
David Nirenberg

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 3
Ch. 1 The Historical Background 18
Ch. 2 France, Source of the Troubles: Shepherds' Crusade and Lepers' Plot (1320, 1321) 43
Ch. 3 Crusade and Massacre in Aragon (1320) 69
Ch. 4 Lepers, Jews, Muslims, and Poison in the Crown (1321) 93
Ch. 5 Sex and Violence between Majority and Minority 127
Ch. 6 Minorities Confront Each Other: Violence between Muslims and Jews 166
Ch. 7 The Two Faces of Sacred Violence 200
Epilogue: The Black Death and Beyond 231
Bibliography of Works Cited 251
Index 281