ISBN:
9781000034783
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
Serie:
Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser
DDC:
306.0940902
Schlagwort(e):
Marginality, Social-Europe-History-To 1500
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- PART 1: Race -- 1. The space between Borno and Palermo: Slavery and its boundaries in the late medieval Saharan-Mediterranean region -- The margins: Palermo and Borno -- The space between the two seas -- Reconfiguring Palermo -- Notes -- 2. Race and vulnerability: Mongols in thirteenth-century ethnographic travel writing -- John of Plano Carpini and knowledge production -- Conversion in William of Rubruck's Itinerarium -- Notes -- PART 2: Geography -- 3. Anglo-Saxons, evangelization, and cultural anxiety: The impact of conversion on the margins of Europe -- Notes -- 4. Malory's Sandwich: Marginalized Arthurian geography and the Global Middle Ages -- Notes -- 5. The past and future margins of Catalonia: Language politics and Catalan imperial ambitions in Guillem de Torroella's La Faula -- Notes -- 6. Why kings? -- Notes -- PART 3: Gender -- 7. Measuring the margins: Women, slavery, and the notarial process in late fourteenth-century Mallorca -- Introduction -- The top of the page - women in the marketplace -- The top of the page - networks of widows, wives, and single women -- The bottom of the page - leaving their "weakness" behind -- The bottom of the page - women behind the scenes -- The bottom of the page - pay no attention to the woman behind the curtain … -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. The marginality of clerics' concubines in the Middle Ages: A reappraisal -- Clerical concubines between church reform and modern scholarship -- Concubines in Italy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9. Reviled and revered: The importance of marginality in the pastoral care of beguines -- Beguines, religious movements, and reform -- Robert of Sorbon: man at the center.
Kurzfassung:
Marginality and the poor masters of the Sorbonne -- "No name is more despised": beguines and marginality -- Notes -- PART 4: Law -- 10. How marginal is marginal? Muslims in the Latin East -- Disciplinarity and the current model -- Muslims in the Frankish legal sources -- Muslims in the political sphere -- Condominia/Muna.afat -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Pirates as marginals in the medieval Mediterranean world -- Notes -- PART 5: Body -- 12. Marginality and community at the Hospital of Saint-Esprit in late medieval Marseille -- The Hospital of Saint-Esprit: a marginal element -- Incorporation and the hospital -- Notes -- 13. Disabled devotion: Original sin and universal disability in the Prik of Conscience -- The impairment of man's kynde -- Disabling likeness: Adam, animals, and analogy -- The knowing of man's kynde: stratifying disability -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
