Contents

pp v-viii

Acknowledgements

pp 1-2

General Introduction

pp 3-18

Part One - Religious Ideologies

pp 19-20

Introduction

pp 21-31

Ideas and Beliefs

The Heretic: Contingent and Commodified

pp 32-45

Censorship and Criminalization of Ideas in Western Europe

pp 46-65

Medieval Suicide

pp 66-83

Sexuality

Attitudes to Same-Sex Sexual Relations in the Latin World

pp 84-101

Marriage and Sexuality in China, 960– 1368 CE

pp 102-118

Money

Usury as Deviance in Medieval Europe

pp 119-142

Part Two - Political Ideologies

pp 143-144

Introduction

pp 145-155

Treason

El and Bulqa: Between Order and Chaos in the Formative Years of the Mongol Empire (1206–1259)

pp 156-172

Treason in France and England in the Later Middle Ages

pp 173-195

Revolts in the Late Medieval Middle East, 1200–1500

pp 196-222

Political Visions of Community

Power, Scapegoating, and the Marginalization of Jews in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages (Eleventh–Fourteenth Centuries)

pp 223-242

Articulating and Contesting Power in the Twelfth-Century Maghrib

pp 243-257

Social and Environmental Policing

pp 258-274

Part Three - Legalism

pp 275-276

Introduction

pp 277-288

Theft

Shifting Attitudes to Theft in Medieval Western Europe

pp 289-305

“This May Bring about Many Evils”: The Jewish Minority Community in Medieval Europe Facing its Own Thieves

pp 306-325