Spicer / Crawshaw The Problem and Place of the Social Margins, 1400-1800

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-63024-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates the shadowy history of the disadvantaged, sick and those who did not conform to the accepted norms of society. It explores how marginal identity was formed, perceived and represented in Britain and Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. It illustrates that the identities of marginal groups were shaped by their place within primarily urban communities, both in terms of their socio-economic status and the places in which they lived and worked. Some of these groups – such as executioners, prostitutes, peddlers and slaves – performed a significant social and economic function but on the basis of this were stigmatized by other townspeople. Language was also used to control and limit the activities of others within society such as single women and foreigners, as well as the victims of sexual crimes. For many, such as lepers and the disabled, marginal status could be ambiguous, cyclical or short-lived and affected by key religious, political and economic events. Traditional histories have often considered these groups in isolation. Based on new research, a series of case studies from Britain and across Europe illustrate and provide important insights into the problems faced by these marginal groups and the ways in which medieval and early modern communities were shaped and developed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spicer, Andrew

Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Jane Stevens Crawshaw Part One: Exploring Space and Language 1. "Sanità Deli Corpi Humani": Planning for Health and the Urban Environment in Renaissance Italy Fabrizio Nevola 2. The Art of Translation: Marginality, Language, and Missionary Dictionaries in New France Sarah Pearsall Part Two: Bodies 3. Marginal Bodies and Minds?: Responses to Leprosy, Mental Illness and Cognitive Impairment in Late Medieval Normandy Elma Brenner 4. "[N]ot So Deformed in Body as Debauched in Behaviour": Disability and "Marginality" in Early Modern England David Turner Part Three: Work 5. The Place of African Slaves in Early Modern Spain Carmen Fracchia 6. Foreigners in the Workplace in Renaissance Venice Rosa Salzberg Part Four: The Family and the Home 7: Families on the Margins?: Priests and their Children in Early Modern Italy Elena Taddia 8: Child Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault: Compromised Chastity, Marginalised Lives? Sarah Toulalan Part Five: The Law 9. Medieval English Singlewomen in Law and Reality Sara M. Butler 10. "Vagrants and Predators"?: The Perception and Treatment of Gypsies as "On the Margins" in Early Modern English Society Julie Gammon Part Six: Death 11. Down but Not Out: Social Mobility Among the Dishonorable of Early Modern Europe Joel F. Harrington 12. The Margins of Death: Funerals and Burials in Early Modern Venice and Nuremberg Alexandra Bamji Afterword Andrew Spicer

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University.

Jane Stevens Crawshaw is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.