Description
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.
About the Author
Eugene Smelyansky is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Global History Program at Washington State University.
Reviews
"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 * Parergon *"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 * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9781487524128
Author Eugene Smelyansky
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint University of Toronto Press
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Weight(grams) 420g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm
