The (Religious, Social and Political) 'Other'

Seminar and Essay Questions

Primary Sources

E-resources

Essential Reading

General

R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Authority and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (Oxford, 2nd edn, 2007)

J. Delumeau, Sin and Fear: the Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries (New York, 1990)

R.N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215-c.1515 (Cambridge, 1995), chap. 8 ‘Inclusion and Exclusion’

D. Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1996)

J. Richards, Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages (London, 1991)

B. Geremek, The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris (Cambridge, 1987)

M. Barber, ‘Lepers, Jews and Moslems: the Plot to Overthrow Christendom in 1321’, History, 66 (1981), 1-17

D. Oldridge, Strange Histories: the Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds (London, 2005)

J.C. Laursen and C.J. Nederman (eds), Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Tolerance before the Enlightenment (1998), Part I

S.J. Milner (ed), At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Minneapolis, 2005), esp. chaps. 1 and 2

E.H. Mizruchi, Regulating Society: Beguines, Bohemians and Other Marginals (Chicago, 1987)

Jews

S. Almog (ed.), Antisemitism through the Ages (Oxford, 1988)

M. Rubin, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (New Haven, 1999)

S. Cohn, ‘The Black Death and the Burning of Jews’, Past and Present, 196 (2007), 3-36

O.R. Constable (ed.), Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia, 1997)

A.Foa, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death (Berkeley and London, 2000)

J. Edwards, The Jews in Christian Europe, 1400-1700 (London, 1988)

(ed) The Jews in Western Europe, 1400-1600 (Manchester, 1994)

R.P. Hsia, Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial (2nd edn, New Haven, 1996)

and H. Lehmann (eds), In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1995)

M.D. Meyerson and E.D. English (eds), Christians, Muslims and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Notre Dame, 2000)

D. Nirenberg, ‘Mass Conversion and Genealogical Mentalities: Jews and Christians in Fifteenth-Century Spain’, Past and Present (2002)

B. Pullan, The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice (London, 1997)

B. Ravid, Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382-1797 (Aldershot, 2003)

E. Shoham-Steiner, ‘An ultimate pariah? Jewish social attitudes toward Jewish lepers in Medieval Western Europe’, Social Research (online journal) spring 2003

Muslims

D.R. Blanks and M. Frassetto (eds), Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Perceptions of the Other (Manchester, 1999)

L.P. Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250-1500 (Chicago, 1990)

B.Z. Kedar, Crusade and Mission: European Approaches toward the Muslims (Princeton, 1984)

B. Lewis, Cultures and Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (Oxford, 1995)

J. Casey, ‘The Moriscos and the Depopulation of Valencia’, Past and Present, 50 (1970), 1-25

O.R. Constable (ed.), Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources (Philadelphia, 1997)

J.H. Edwards, ‘Mission and Inquisition among Conversos and Moriscos in Spain, 1250-1550’, Studies in Church History, 21 (1984), 139-51

A.G. Chejne, Islam and the West: The Moriscos, A Cultural and Social History (Albany, 1983)

B. Taylor, ‘The Enemy Within and Without: an Anatomy of Fear on the Spanish Mediterranean Littoral’, in W.G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997), pp. 78-99

Disease and Leprosy

S. Cohn, The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe (London, 2002)

P. Conrad and J. Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization: from Badness to Sickness (London, 1985)

M. Douglas, 'Witchcraft and Leprosy: Two Strategies of Exclusion', Man, 26 (1991), 723-36

P. Richards, The Medieval Leper and his Northern Heirs (Woodbridge, 2000)

E. Bever, ‘Witchcraft Fears and Psychosocial Factors in Disease’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 30 (2000), 573-90

S.N. Brody, The Disease of the Soul: Leprosy in Medieval Literature (Ithaca and London, 1974)

A.G. Carmichael, ‘Contagion Theory and Contagion Practice in Fifteenth-Century Milan’, Renaissance Quarterly, 64 (1991), 213-56

E. Clark, ‘Social Welfare and Mutual Aid in the Medieval Countryside’, Journal of British Studies, 33 (1994), 381-406

B.L. Grigsby, Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature (New York, 2004)

T.S. Miller and R. Smith-Savage, ‘Medieval Leprosy Reconsidered’, International Social Science Review (online journal), spring-summer 2006

C. Rawcliffe, Leprosy in Medieval England (London, 2006)

F-O. Touati, ‘Contagion and Leprosy: Myth, Ideas and Evolution in Medieval Minds and Societies’, in L.I. Conrad and D. Wujastyk (eds), Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-modern Societies (Aldershot, 2000), pp. 179-201

Race and Slavery

R. Bartlett, ‘Medieval and Early Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 31 (2001), 39-56

B. Braude, ‘The Sons of Noah and the Construction of Ethnic and Geographical Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods’, William and Mary Quarterly, 54 (1997), 103-42 (and others in this volume)

T.F. Earle and K.F.P. Lowe (eds), Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (Cambridge, 2005)

S.A. Epstein, ‘Slaves in Italy, 1350-1550’, in Milner (ed), At the Margins, pp. 219-35

T.G. Hahn, ‘The Difference the Middle Ages Makes: Colour and Race before the Modern World’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 31 (2001), 1-37

R. Hellie, ‘Recent Soviet Historiography on Medieval and Early Modern Russian Slavery’, Russian Review, 35 (1976), 1-32

K. Lowe, ‘“Representing” Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 17 (2007), 101-28

A.J. Russell-Wood, ‘Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440-1770’, American Historical Review, 83 (1978), 16-42