At the Gate of Christendom

Jews, Muslims and ` Pagans ' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7516420
AutoresNora Berend (0000-0003-4552-5807, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Fecha de publicación2001-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaAt the Gate of Christendom (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511523106
OpenAlexW2013031481
Open LibraryOL34440522M
ISBN9780511523106
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas50

Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that different degrees of exclusion and integration characterized medieval non-Christian status in the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary between 1000 and 1300. A complex explanation of non-Christian status emerges from the analysis of their economic, social, legal and religious positions and roles. Existence on the frontier with the nomadic world led to the formulation of a frontier ideology, and to anxiety about Hungary's detachment from Christendom, which affected policies towards non-Christians. The study also succeeds in integrating central European history with the study of the medieval world, while challenging such current concepts in medieval studies as frontier societies, persecution and tolerance, ethnicity and 'the other

Ancient history · Archaeology · Assimilation (phonology · Frontier · Index (typography · Population · Sociology · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Classics · Demography · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Christianity and other religions · Church history · Hungary · Religion · Social conditions