Eradicative violence against heretics differed from coercive subordination of Jews and Muslims

Evidence

This phenomenon of lumping together the enemies of the Catholic faith should not be exaggerated. It was one thing to be forced to listen to a Dominican sermon in one’s Barcelona mosque or synagogue, something else entirely to be massacred as a Cathar by the Albigensian crusaders. The same authors who associated Jews, Muslims, and heretics as the devil’s minions could distinguish their different social and legal statuses. There is a fundamental distinction between violence aimed at the eradication of a deviant group (the Cathar heretics) and coercion aimed at enforcing and maintaining the inferior social status of accepted groups (such as Jews and Muslims). — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1364 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Eradicative and status-maintaining violence are fundamentally different; Muslims were given the legal status of Jews rather than slaughtered like heretics; Medieval anti-infidel coercion differed fundamentally from anti-heretic extermination (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence against accepted minorities differs fundamentally from violence aimed at eradicating heretics. #expands (0.92) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1364
• Medieval Christianity treated Jews and Muslims as interchangeable heretics #complicates (0.88)
• Medieval theology framed Jews and Muslims as heretical collaborators in anti-Christian violence. #complicates (0.83)