Derek Keene Bal?zs Nagy and Katalin Szende
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Concern with the role and experience of ethnic and religious minorities and their potential for conflict and harmony with the wider community has long been a source of interest for urban historians. Whilst most historical investigations of this phenomena concentrate on a single town or particular group this volume offers a much broader geographical and chronological view. Looking at towns across western and particularly eastern Europe from the late antique period to the fifteenth century it tackles the changing nature of questions of identity perception legal status and relations between groups together with the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which towns were inevitably subjected.Overall the chapters illustrate the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens outsiders or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances or over time. By focusing on the formative period of European urban history this volume not only reveals much about medieval society but poses questions issues that are still valid today.
Ashgate
Hardback
282
Concern with the role and experience of ethnic and religious minorities and their potential for conflict and harmony with the wider community has long been a source of interest for urban historians. Whilst most historical investigations of this phenomena concentrate on a single town or particular group this volume offers a much broader geographical and chronological view. Looking at towns across western and particularly eastern Europe from the late antique period to the fifteenth century it tackles the changing nature of questions of identity perception legal status and relations between groups together with the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which towns were inevitably subjected.Overall the chapters illustrate the variety of ways in which minorities found a place in towns - as citizens outsiders or in some other role - and how that could vary according to local circumstances or over time. By focusing on the formative period of European urban history this volume not only reveals much about medieval society but poses questions issues that are still valid today.