Persecution and Genocide

Gervase Phillips is Principal Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a historian of conflict, persecution, genocide, and slavery. His previous publications include The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513–1550 (1999).

Introduction 1. ‘Your Cruelty is Our Glory’: The Roman Persecution of Christians, 64–313 CE 2. ‘More Ruthless than the Tyrant, More Bloody than the Executioner’: Christianising the Roman Empire and Forging a Theory of Persecution, 313 CE–c.430 CE 3. ‘Peace for the Gods of Our Forefathers’: Pagans Between Persecution and Forbearance, 313–529 CE 4. ‘Slay Them Not’: The Medieval Roots of Modern Antisemitism, c.313–1492 5. ‘Kill Them All. God Will Know His Own’: The Albigensian Crusade and the Persecution of Heretics, 1209–1321 6. ‘Some Fantastic Delusion’: The Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe, c.1420–1782 7. ‘God’s Fire Impressed the Mark of Slavery Upon You’: Race and Slavery, c.1450–1888 8. ‘How Godly a Deed It Is to Overthrow So Wicked a Race’: Genocide and Colonialism, 1492–1908 9. ‘More Unpitying than Pestilence or Fire’: Genocides in the Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet Empires, 1864–1945 10. ‘The Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe’: Persecution and the Holocaust, 1933–1945. Conclusion