1st Edition
The Place of the Social Margins, 1350-1750
1. Introduction
[Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw]
Part I: Health
2. Marginal Bodies and Minds: Responses to Leprosy and Mental Disorders in Late Medieval Normandy
[Elma Brenner]
3. "Not So Deformed in Body as Debauched in Behaviour": Disability and "Marginality" in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England
[David M. Turner]
Part II: The Law
4. Medieval Singlewomen in Law and Practice
[Sara M. Butler]
5. Aliens, Native Englishmen and Migration: William Herbert’s Considerations in the Behalf of Foreiners (1662)
[Andrew Spicer]
Part III: Work
6. Down But Not Out: A Case Study in Early Modern Social Mobility from the Margins
[Joel F. Harrington]
7. The Place of African Slaves in Early Modern Spain
[Carmen Fracchia]
8. The Margins in the Centre: Working Around Rialto in Sixteenth-Century Venice
[Rosa M. Salzberg]
Part IV: Morality and the Home
9. Cleaning up the Renaissance City: The Symbolic and Physical Place of the Genoese Brothel in Urban Society
[Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw]
10. Child Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault: Compromised Chastity, Marginalized Lives?
[Sarah Toulalan]
11. Afterword: Constructing Marginality in the Early Modern European City
[Fabrizio Nevola]
Biography
Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University and a Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society.
Jane Stevens Crawshaw is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.
