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WILLIAM OF TYRE AND THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE

February 6, 2011 By Medievalists.net

WILLIAM OF TYRE AND THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE: THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE Špoljarić, Luka MA Thesis in Medieval Studies, Central European University Budapest, May, (2008) Abstract The Byzantine Empire plays an important role in William of Tyre’s (ca. 1130ca. 1185) history of the First Crusade and the Crusader states. Previous studies have taken a linear […]

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The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography

January 2, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.

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Christian Emperors, Christian Church and the Jews of the Diaspora in the Greek East, CE 379-450

December 8, 2010 By Medievalists.net

This sudden side-light on Jewish–Christian relations in the fifth century comes from Iohannes, archbishop of Antioch, writing to Proclus, his counterpart in Constantinople, in 435

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Why Minorities Were Neither Tolerated nor Discriminated Against in the Middle Ages

January 20, 2010 By Medievalists.net

Marginal Illustration from the Chronicles of Offa (British Library, Cotton Nero D. I.), folio 183v, Jews being persecuted. Illustration by Matthew Paris.

Discrimination and tolerance are asymmetrical concepts in present day usage. Tolerance has a positive meaning and denotes the attitude of a majority that accepts deviant forms of reasoning or behaviour practiced by a minority.