03682nam 2200661 450 991078740660332120210427024819.00-8122-9231-610.9783/9780812292312(CKB)3710000000362822(EBL)3442484(SSID)ssj0001454166(PQKBManifestationID)11796529(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001454166(PQKBWorkID)11492551(PQKB)10027129(OCoLC)606996192(MdBmJHUP)muse45674(DE-B1597)463530(OCoLC)928987547(DE-B1597)9780812292312(Au-PeEL)EBL3442484(CaPaEBR)ebr11024629(OCoLC)929158565(MiAaPQ)EBC3442484(EXLCZ)99371000000036282220150309h19981998 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrOther Middle Ages witnesses at the margins of medieval society /edited by Michael GoodichPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,1998.©19981 online resource (288 p.)Middle Ages SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8122-1654-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --I. The Jews: From Tolerated Minority to Persecuted Foe --II. Apostates and Converts --III. Sexual Nonconformists and the Fires of Lust --IV: Victims of the Devil: The Possessed, the Ecstatics, and the Suicidal --V. Christian Heterodoxy --VI. Insiders and Outsiders: Liminality and Integration --Selected Bibliography --IndexSeldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of Medieval Europe have much to tell us about the society that defined them. More than just a fascinating cast of characters, the visionaries and sexual dissidents, the suicidal and psychologically unbalanced, the lepers and converts of Medieval times reveal the fears of a people for whom life was made both meaningful and terrifying by the sacred. After centuries of historical silence, these and other disenfranchised members of the medieval public have been given voice by Michael Goodich in a unique collection of texts from the mid-eleventh through the fourteenth century. Translated from their original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, these texts, many of them first person narratives or testimonies, give insight into those figures who made Medieval society uneasy. The book is divided into chapters dealing with the Jewish community, apostates and converts, sexual nonconformists, victims of the Devil, Christian heretics, and the liminal and temporarily marginalized. The texts included both give spiritual voice to such groups, and illuminate the more mundane affairs of their daily lives—child rearing, social life, economic difficulties, sexuality, dreams, emotional instability, and gender relations among them.Middle Ages series.Social historyMedieval, 500-1500SourcesMarginality, SocialEuropeHistorySourcesMarginality, Social, in literatureSocial historyMarginality, SocialHistoryMarginality, Social, in literature.306/.09/02Goodich Michael1944-2006,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787406603321Other Middle Ages3760539UNINA