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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2010
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511523106
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523106
Subjects:
British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, Russian and East European History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (50)
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Book description

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'.

Awards

Winner of the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History 2003 Book Award

Reviews

‘This fine book should be read by anyone interested in the study of frontier societies and minority groups in medieval Latin Europe.’

Source: History

‘… her conclusions on the usefulness of the term ‘ethnicity’ should be taken further …’.

Source: Journal of Jewish Studies

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