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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823558303321

Titolo

Living dangerously [[electronic resource] ] : on the margins in Medieval and early modern Europe / / edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and Anna Grotans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007

ISBN

0-268-08164-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HanawaltBarbara

GrotansAnna A. <1961->

Disciplina

305.5/609409024

Soggetti

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Marginality, Social - Europe - History

Crime - Europe - History

Middle Ages

Civilization, Medieval

Europe History 476-1492

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.