Thematic Indexes of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements 1
4. General Introduction 3
5. PART ONE: RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES
6. Introduction 21
7. IDEAS AND BELIEFS
8. The Heretic: Contingent and Commodified 32
9. Censorship and Criminalization of Ideas in Western Europe 46
10. Medieval Suicide 66
11. SEXUALITY
12. Attitudes to Same- Sex Sexual Relations in the Latin World 84
13. Marriage and Sexuality in China, 960– 1368 CE 102
14. MONEY
15. Usury as Deviance in Medieval Europe 119
16. PART TWO: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
17. Introduction 145
18. TREASON
19. El and Bulqa: Between Order and Chaos in the Formative Years of the Mongol Empire (1206– 1259) 156
20. Treason in France and England in the Later Middle Ages 173
21. Revolts in the Late Medieval Middle East, 1200– 1500 196
22. POLITICAL VISIONS OF COMMUNITY
23. Power, Scapegoating, and the Marginalization of Jews in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages (Eleventh– Fourteenth Centuries) 223
24. Articulating and Contesting Power in the Twelfth- Century Maghrib 243
25. Social and Environmental Policing 258
26. PART THREE: LEGALISM
27. Introduction 277
28. THEFT
29. Shifting Attitudes to Theft in Medieval Western Europe 289
30. “This may bring about many evils”: The Jewish Minority Community in Medieval Europe Facing Its Own Thieves 306
31. VIOLENCE
32. The Criminalization of Violence in the Medieval West 326
33. Rape and Law in Medieval Western Europe 342
34. An Analysis of “Rape” in Islamic Legal Discourse (1000– 1500 CE) 358
35. WITHIN THE HOME
36. Between the Muslim State and Individual Agency: The Regulation of Sexuality in the Jewish Communities of Medieval Egypt 376
37. Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Christian Europe 397
38. Epilogue 415
39. Index 419
40. Thematic Indexes of Contents 435