Lepers, Jews and Moslems: The Plot to Overthrow Christendom in 1321

Barber, Malcolm

doi:10.1111/j.1468-229x.1981.tb01356.x

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“…In France, a movement arose known as the Pastoureaux . The Pastoureaux first attacked royal castles in Normandy and the Paris region, then they moved south where they persecuted Jews throughout Languedoc in cities like Saintes, Verdun, Grenade, Castelsarrasin, Toulouse, Cahors, Lézat, Albi, Auch, Rabastens and Gaillac (Barber, , p. 12). The ‘brunt of peasant violence fell upon the Jews, for they … could be blamed for the economic hardships which the lower classes had recently been suffering’ (Barber, , p. 163)…”

Section: Weather Shocks and Jewish Persecutionsmentioning

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Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Anderson

Johnson

Koyama

2016

The Economic Journal

140

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What factors caused the persecution of minorities in premodern Europe? Using panel data consisting of 1,366 persecutions of Jews from 936 European cities between 1100 and 1800, we test whether persecutions were more likely following colder growing seasons. A one standard deviation decrease in growing season temperature in the previous five-year period increased the probability of a persecution by between 1 and 1.5 percentage points (relative to a baseline of 2 %). This effect was strongest in weak states and with poor quality soil. The long-run decline in persecutions was partly attributable to greater market integration and state capacity.

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Section: Weather Shocks and Jewish Persecutionsmentioning

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Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Anderson

Johnson

Koyama

2016

The Economic Journal

140

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“…The political economy of epidemic disease in the Middle Ages was shaped by the need to find scapegoats for negative economic or epidemiological shocks. During the Great Famine of 1316–1322, lepers were persecuted across France (Barber, 1981 ). Local authorities were convinced that lepers together with Muslims and Jews were poisoning healthy people.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Epidemic Disease and The State From The Middle Agesmentioning

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Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?

Koyama¹

2021

Public Choice

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“…Later in the same century, at the time of the Black Death, Jews were accused of poisoning wells to spread the disease. Both types of accusations led to brutal massacres of Jews, and, in some cases, to the expulsion of entire Jewish communities (Barber, 1981;Laqueur, 2008, pp. 60-62;Kaplan, 2011).…”

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An exploration of coronavirus-related online antisemitism in Hungary using quantitative topic model and qualitative discourse analysis

Barna¹,

Knap²

2021

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Soon after the outbreak of the pandemic, antisemitism connected to the coronavirus appeared in the world. In our research we analyzed a large Hungarian online text corpus from December 1, 2019, to July 10, 2020 to examine whether coronavirus-related antisemitism was present in the Hungarian online space, and if so, what its content was. We differentiated between two layers of communication: the professionalized layer represented by online articles, and the lay one represented by comments and posts. After providing the conceptual background regarding conspiracy theories and conspiratorial- and coronavirus-related antisemitism, we present the mixed-method approach that we employed. This approach includes quantitative LDA topic models, human annotation, and the qualitative analysis of various discourses. Our research indicates that coronavirus-related antisemitism appeared in the Hungarian online space at the very beginning of the pandemic. However, at this time, until July, it was present almost solely at the lay level. Its content was mainly related to various tropes (conspiracy theories) about Jews. However, additional content was also identified. Based on our results and international examples, we propose a comprehensive typology that proved to be a suitable means of analyzing coronavirus-related antisemitic content.

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Lepers, Jews and Moslems: The Plot to Overthrow Christendom in 1321

Cited by 54 publications

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Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?

An exploration of coronavirus-related online antisemitism in Hungary using quantitative topic model and qualitative discourse analysis

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