The 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 Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Precursors and Origins

1. 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 Persecution
5. Christianity Triumphant: The Theodosian Code on Christianity and Paganism

Chapter 2: Anti-Judaism and Persecution of the Jews

6. “Slay Them Not”: Saint Augustine on the Jews
7. 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 Austria
13. Well-Poisoning Accusations against the Jews
14. Massacre of the Jews in Strasbourg

Chapter 3: Heresy and Inquisition

15. 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 Work
22. 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 Cities

Chapter 4: External Others: Contacts, Intolerance, and the Making of Medieval Europe

28. Carolingian Conquest of Saxony: Two Perspectives
29. Gerald of Wales on the Irish
30. Papal Blessing for Henry II’s Conquest of Ireland
31. 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 Order

Chapter 5: Interreligious Violence in the Mediterranean

34. 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 Sultan

Chapter 6:  People on the Margins of Medieval Society

42. 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 Toleration

Chapter 7: Disease and Disability in Medieval Europe

53. 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, 1321

Chapter 8: From the Holy to the Sinful: Attitudes towards Women

60. A Prostitute Saint: Saint Mary of Egypt
61. 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 Marriage

Chapter 9: The Control of Sexuality

68. 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