Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

Given, James; Nirenberg, David

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“…Despite these likenesses, as a rule, renaissance patrons were more interested in growing than in weeding. While efforts to perfect society have often been accompanied by the eviction of unwanted types (including the infamous purges of Muslims and Jews in Iberia (Greer et al., 2008; Hillgarth, 2000; Nirenberg, 1996)), through the study of animals we see a different set of priorities. Sixteenth century documents imagining and recording animal breeding projects do not dwell on elimination of the nature breeders considered imperfect.…”

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Cooley

2023

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This article uses the renaissance culture of horse racing as a window into the practices and language of breeding, artifice, and race. The popular palio racing circuit brought local and foreign horses into Italian city centers to test their speed. Racing culture, and other formal and informal competitions related to animals incentivized the development of specialized horse breeds called razze in Italian; this term is a precursor of the modern English “race.” To make these animals, renaissance patrons and animal experts engaged in unnatural selection. Their selective breeding efforts committed more to growing than weeding, aimed to create horses as works of art, branded animals so that they would be recognizable and cemented a discourse of race that emphasized the reproductive and training work of sponsored experts. This synthetic overview meditates on the transhistorical language of breeding and the consequences of excluding animals from our historical understanding of the making of the idea of race.

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Cooley

2023

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“…Whatever the topic and style of debate, when it comes to religion, it will be a contentious and aggressive discussion (Padgett et al, 2020). Since religious disputes usually lead to violence, intolerance, antagonism, distrust, war, and genocide between nations, it is clear that religion will always be a frightening thing (Nirenberg, 2015).…”

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Struggling Against Radicalism Through the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

Mohtarom

2023

J. Multidisiplin Ibrahimy

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Citing a hadith from the Prophet Muhammad SAW, this essay discusses how radicalism is handled in Indonesia as an extremist and terrorist problem. Using the Integrative Review paradigm, it uses a qualitative approach and literature review as its research technique. The Hadith of the Prophet provides two strategies: preventative activity and repressive action. Promoting attitudes of moderation, tolerance, compassion, justice, equality, and prudence while issuing fatwas are examples of preventive efforts. Repressive measures, on the other hand, are meant to deal with hypocrites and Khawarij to preserve the Muslim Ummah's unity and defend the Muslim community's wellbeing per the hadith recorded in Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

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“…This transformation was a significant departure from the Late Antique period, characterized by the governance of the Visigoth kingdom of Toledo, the successor to the Roman Empire, from the 5th to the early 8th centuries CE 1,4 . Subsequently, until the 15th century CE, the Iberian Peninsula bore witness to a complex interplay of coexistence and conflict between two broad sociopolitical groupings characterized by the religious affiliations of their local leaders and rulers, namely Islam and Christianity 1,5,6 . On one side stood the diverse Christian realms in the northern regions of the peninsula, who self-proclaimed a legacy from the Visigoth kingdom 1 .…”

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Unravelling social status in the first medieval military order of the Iberian Peninsula using isotope analysis

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Rissech,

Lloveras

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Medieval Iberia witnessed the complex negotiation of religious, social, and economic identities, including the formation of religious orders that played a major role in border disputes and conflicts. While archival records provide insights into the compositions of these orders, there have been few direct dietary or osteoarchaeological studies to date. Here, we analysed 25 individuals discovered at the Zorita de los Canes Castle church cemetery, Guadalajara, Spain, where members of one of the first religious orders, the Order of Calatrava knights, were buried between the 12th to 15th centuries CE. Stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope analyses of bone collagen reveal dietary patterns typical of the Medieval social elite, with the Bayesian R model, ‘Simmr’ suggesting a diet rich in poultry and marine fish in this inland population. Social comparisons and statistical analyses further support the idea that the order predominantly comprised the lower nobility and urban elite in agreement with historical sources. Our study suggests that while the cemetery primarily served the order's elite, the presence of individuals with diverse dietary patterns may indicate complexities of temporal use or wider social interaction of the medieval military order.

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Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

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Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Horse racing: Unnatural selection in the renaissance

Struggling Against Radicalism Through the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

Unravelling social status in the first medieval military order of the Iberian Peninsula using isotope analysis

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