Minority Influences in Medieval Society

This book investigates how minorities contributed to medieval society, comparing these contributions to majority society's perceptions of the minority.**

Autorentext

Nora Berend is Professor of European History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Professor Berend's interests encompass medieval religious and cultural interaction, the formation of identity and modern uses of the medieval. Her publications include At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary (c.1000 - c. 1300) (2001) and the co-authored Central Europe in the High Middle Ages, c. 900-c.1300 (2013).

Inhalt

1. Real and perceived minority influences in medieval society

Nora Berend

2. 'Ale for an Englishman is a natural drink': the Dutch and the origins of beer brewing in late medieval England

Milan Paji

3. Islamic influence on Christian legislation in the kingdom of Castile

Ana Echevarría

4. Franks, locals and sugar cane: a case study of cultural interaction in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem

Judith Bronstein, Edna J. Stern and Elisabeth Yehuda

5. Medieval Sunni historians on Fatimid policy and non-Muslim influence

Luke Yarborough

6. The Catalans in Sardinia and the transformation of Sardinians into a political minority in the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries

Luciano Gallinari

7. Iure Theutonico? German settlers and legal frameworks for immigration to Hungary in an East-Central European perspective

Katalin Szende

8. Migrants in high medieval Bohemia

Matthias Hardt

9. The real and perceived influence of minority groups in Poland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Eduard Mühle