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The book frames violence as both catastrophic and systemic, linking uprisings, crusade rhetoric, and accusations to broader structures of power, sex, and religion. A new paperback preface reflects on the author’s research motivations, critiques comforting myths of peaceful coexistence, and questions simplistic blame or civilizational conflict narratives.","David Nirenberg  \nCOMMUNITIES  \nOF VIOLENCE  \nPersecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages  \nWith a new preface by the author  \nCOMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE  \nOMMUNITIESOFVIOLENCE  \nPERSECUTION OF MINORITIESIN THE MIDDLE AGES  \n率  \nDavid Nirenberg  \nwith a new preface by the author  \nP RIN CE TON U NIV ERSITY PRES S  \nCopyright ◎1996 by Princeton University PressPublished by Princeton University Press,41 Wlliam StreetPrinceton,New Jersey 08540  \nIn the United Kingdom:Princeton University Press,6 Oxford Street,Woodstock,Oxfordshire OX201TW  \nRequess for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent toPermissions,Princeton University Press  \npress.princeton.edu  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nFirst printing,1996  \nFirst paperback printing,1998New paperback edition,with a new preface by the author,2015  \nPaper ISBN:978-0-691-16576-9  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number:2015930408  \nBritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available  \nThis book has been composed in Bembo  \nPrinted on acid-free paper.∞  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n13579108642  \nCONTENTS  \nPREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION viiACKNOWLEDGMENTS xviiABBREVIATIONS xix  \nINTRODUCTION 3  \nCHAPTER ONEThe Historical Background 18  \nPART ONE:CATACLYSMIC VIOLENCE:FRANCE AND THE CROWN OF ARAGON  \nCHAPTER TWO  \nFrance,Source of the Troubles:Shepherds'Crusade and Lepers'Plot(1320,1321)43  \nCHAPTER THREECrusade and Massacre in Aragon(1320)69  \nCHAPTER FOURLepers,Jews,Muslims,and Poison in the Crown (1321)93  \nPART TWO:SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE:POWER,SEX,AND RELIGION  \nCHAPTER FIVESex and Violence between Majority and Minority 127  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nMinorities Confront Each Other:Violence between Muslims and Jews 166  \nCHAPTER SEVENThe Two Faces of Sacred Violence 200  \nEPILOGUEThe Black Death and Beyond 231  \nBIBLIOGRAPHY OF WoRKS CITED 251INDEX 281  \n# PREFACETOTHE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION\n\nDID NOT have violence on my mind when I first entered the Archive ofthe Crown of Aragon in 1989.Relations between Muslims,Christians,andJews in the Middle Ages were what I was looking for,and if I remembercorrectly I expected many of those relations to be loving,or at least sexual.Myundergraduate studies had introduced me to a world of interfaith prostitutionand occasional intermarriage in medieval Iberia,a world I hoped to explore andexpand in a doctoral dissertation.My motives for that interest I cannot recollect.Perhaps I was searching for a potent and positive metaphor for the coexistenceof the three faiths in the long ago and far away:an intimate medieval allegory forwhat seemed in 1989(and still today)a religiously troubled present.  \nI  \nI say perhaps,but I doubt it.I was in my twenties when I researched andwrote Communities ofViolence,the age at which rebellion against the comfortingmyths of childhood often takes its most aggressively intellectual form.From alover of Andrew Lang and the Brothers Grimm I had turned into an (equallynaive?)foe of those who search for idylls in the past.Like the eighteenth cen-tury German philosopher Herder(who was also writing about medieval Iberia),I dismissed irenic accounts of medieval relations between Muslims,Christians,and Jews as angenehmes Marchen,“comfortable fairy tales.”  \nNor did I follow those who trafficked in nightmares,like the political scientistSamuel Huntington,whose The Clash of Civilizations,published in the same year(1996)as Commnities of Violence,prophesied a new world order of increasinglyreligious confrontation in which geopolitical conflict would be structured alongthe fault lines between competing civilizational blocks,each unified by a sharedreligion and culture that would put them at odds with their neighbors.I had(and have)little confidence in such prophets,and 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