Mediaeval society preserved itself by isolating Jews and Muslims

Evidence

Within Christendom, the mediaevals preserved society, and the ideas to which society was attached, by intolerance. Jews and Muslims subject to Christian princes needed to be isolated, and heretics, as subject to the Christian Church to be extirpated. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1508

Categorization

• XREF: The isolated-but-domestic status of Jews and Muslims under Christian princes prefigures the differential racialization of Muslim subjects described in Aziz and Razack.