Living on the edge : transgression, exclusion, and persecution in the middle ages / edited by Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Laura Miquel Milian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milian, Laura Miquel, editor.

Nieto-Isabel, Delfi-I. (Delfi Isabel), editor.

Series:

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; v.83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction All but Marginal: The Co-Constructions of Otherness in the Middle Ages

Part I: The Fundamental Edge

Chapter 1 Reading in Community, Writing a Community: Douceline’s Vida and the Beguines of Roubaud

Chapter 2 “No More Horrified by Them”: Royal Holy Women and Lepers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hagiography

Chapter 3 Exclusion and Marginalization of Widows in Late Medieval Barcelona

Chapter 4 Ageing Women, (In)Visible Bodies: Iconographies on the Edge in Late-Medieval Iberia (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)

Part II: The Religious Edge

Chapter 5 Catharistae in Question: A Case of Rupture in the Manichaean Sect

Chapter 6 Art, Iconography, and Orthodoxy between the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Case of the Ascension

Chapter 7 The Early Cistercian Order and the Persecution of Heresy: Bernard of Clairvaux’s and Geoffrey of Auxerre’s Attitudes Towards the Violent Persecution of Heretics

Chapter 8 From Persecution to Exile: Jewish Views on Christians and Christianity in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Part III: The Edge of Society

Chapter 9 Social Domination and Resistance: Slavery in the Medieval Christian Western Mediterranean

Chapter 10 Diverging Views of the “Leper” in Legal, Literary, and Doctrinal Texts from Thirteenth-Century Western Europe

Chapter 11 On the Margins of Society: Exclusion through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo

Chapter 12 Defying Containment: The Use of the Frame in Depictions of Monstrous Peoples in Monte Cassino Rhabanus Maurus Codex

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5015-1486-5