Intolerant Middle Ages

Eugene Smelyansky is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Roots of Contemporary Issues Global History Program at Washington State University.

• Acknowledgments List of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1: Precursors and Origins1. 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 Persecution5. Christianity Triumphant: The Theodosian Code on Christianity and PaganismChapter 2: Anti-Judaism and Persecution of the Jews6. "Slay Them Not": Saint Augustine on the Jews7. 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 Austria13. Well-Poisoning Accusations against the Jews 14. Massacre of the Jews in StrasbourgChapter 3: Heresy and Inquisition15. 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 Work22. 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 CitiesChapter 4: External Others: Contacts, Intolerance, and the Making of Medieval Europe28. Carolingian Conquest of Saxony: Two Perspectives 29. Gerald of Wales on the Irish 30. Papal Blessing for Henry II’s Conquest of Ireland31. 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 OrderChapter 5: Interreligious Violence in the Mediterranean34. 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 SultanChapter 6:  People on the Margins of Medieval Society42. 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 TolerationChapter 7: Disease and Disability in Medieval Europe53. 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, 1321Chapter 8: From the Holy to the Sinful: Attitudes towards Women60. A Prostitute Saint: Saint Mary of Egypt61. 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 MarriageChapter 9: The Control of Sexuality68. 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

"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)