Mendicants as victims: scale, scope, and the idiom of violence
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| Publication date |
2010
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| Journal |
Journal of Medieval History
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| Volume | Issue number |
36 | 2
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| Pages (from-to) |
126-141
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| Number of pages |
16
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
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| Abstract |
This article establishes the scale of violence perpetrated against mendicant friars in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, and provides a list of these events in an on-line appendix. It underscores and analyses the wide variety of contexts in which such incidents took place and examines the ramifications for the history of the mendicant orders and medieval urban society generally. Violence was a subtler form of communicative action than is sometimes recognised, and the paper points to the inverse relationship between power and violence in medieval urban conflicts.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Note |
With Supplementary data.
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2010.02.001
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