We know this because we see both late medieval legislation and extrajudicial violence directed at "aliens: including Jews (bef. 1290 and converts after), Welsh, Scots, "Flemings," Italians, "Germans," even English "northerners," not to mention Normans and general French, etc. - ThreadSky

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samanthalkseal.bsky.social • 66 days ago

We know this because we see both late medieval legislation and extrajudicial violence directed at "aliens: including Jews (bef. 1290 and converts after), Welsh, Scots, "Flemings," Italians, "Germans," even English "northerners," not to mention Normans and general French, etc.

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samanthalkseal.bsky.social•66 days ago

And, in fact, the high crime rate of medieval Oxford cited in that thread was often violence between the town and the "diverse" university, with scholars and students fighting against townspeople and vice versa, as in the St. Scholastica's Day Riot of 1355.

samanthalkseal.bsky.social•66 days ago

Medieval England was a heterogenous society in which violence, discrimination, and popular resentment were frequently targeted at individuals and communities seen as different (including lepers), not some pseudo-utopian past of ethno-racial purity.

samanthalkseal.bsky.social•66 days ago

For more on medieval England's immigrants, see https://englandsimmigrants.com

samanthalkseal.bsky.social•66 days ago

And an excerpt from Meir of Norwich on the treatment of his people in medieval England:

"The land exhausts us by demanding payments, and the people’s disgust is heard/While we are silent and wait for the light." (trans. Susan Einbinder)

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