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Living dangerously : on the margins in Medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Anna Grotans.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Marginality, Social--Europe--History.
- Marginality, Social.
- Crime--Europe--History.
- Crime.
- Middle Ages.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This interesting read explores different marginalized populations in medieval and early modern European society, from prostitutes to writers of satire and reveals how the dominant culture needs its margins.
- Contents:
- "Nede ne hath no lawe": the plea of necessity in medieval literature and law / Richard Firth Green
- Upward mobility in the German high middle ages: the ascent of a faithful liar
- Vickie Ziegler
- Women in love: carnal and spiritual transgressions in late Medieval France / Dyan Elliott
- Gendering the disenfranchised: down, out, and female in early modern Spain / Anne J. Cruz
- Sodomy and the lash: sexualized satire in the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton
- The wind traders: speculators and frauds in Northern Europe, 1650 - 1720 / Mary Lindemann.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268081645
- 0268081646
- OCLC:
- 694144461
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