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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality

Edited By Ann Zimo, Tiffany Vann Sprecher, Kathryn Reyerson, Debra Blumenthal Copyright 2020
272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be qualified as... Read more

Introduction

Part 1 Race

1. The Space Between Borno and Palermo: Slavery and Its Boundaries in the Late Medieval Saharan-Mediterranean Region, Lori De Lucia

2. Race and Vulnerability: Mongols in Thirteenth-Century Ethnographic Travel Writing, Sierra Lomuto

Part 2 Geography

3. Anglo-Saxons, Evangelization, and Cultural Anxiety: The Impact of Conversion on the Margins of Europe, Jeremy DeAngelo

4. Malory’s Sandwich: Marginalized Geography and the Global Middle Ages, Meg Roland

5. The Past and Future Margins of Catalonia: Language Politics and Catalan Imperial Ambitions in Guillem de Torroella’s La Faula, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

6. Why Kings? Lisa Wolverton

Part 3 Gender

7. Measuring the Margins: Women, Slavery and the Notarial Process in Late Fourteenth-Century Mallorca, Kevin Mummey

8. The Marginality of Clerics’ Concubines in the Middle Ages: A Reappraisal, Roisin Cossar

9. Reviled and Revered: The Importance of Marginality in the Pastoral Care of Beguines, Tanya Stabler Miller

Part 4 Law

10. How Marginal is Marginal? Muslims in the Latin East, Ann E. Zimo

11. Pirates as Marginals in the Medieval Mediterranean World, Kathryn Reyerson

Part 4 Body

12. Marginality and Community at the Hospital of Saint-Esprit in Late Medieval Marseille, Caley McCarthy

13. Disabled Devotion: Original Sin and Universal Disability in the Prik of Conscience, Samantha Katz Seal

Biography

Ann E. Zimo is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on cultural interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean at the time of the crusades.



Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher has published articles on priests, women, and ecclesiastical regulation in Speculum, Journal of Medieval History, and Bulletin of the History of Medicine. She is currently an independent scholar as well as project manager at Beutler Ink, a digital marketing agency.



Kathryn Reyerson is Distinguished University Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and founding director of the Center for Medieval Studies. She has published widely on merchants and trade, and on women and gender. Her current research focuses on medieval Mediterranean piracy.



Debra Blumenthal is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her publications explore the history of slavery and race, as well as gender and cross-cultural relations in the medieval Mediterranean.

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