Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France

Herausgeber: Cohen, Meredith; Firnhaber-Baker, Justine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays about the existence of difference in medieval France, and also about the variety of ways that difference could create solidarity and sympathy among groups, as well as disaffection and disgust.

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Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, presenting a fresh, intriguing perspective on the notion of belonging in the medieval world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780754667575
• ISBN-10: 075466757X
• Artikelnr.: 41244247

Autorenporträt

Meredith Cohen, Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Oxford Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Lecturer in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Justine Firnhaber-Baker; Part I Marginalization and Persecution: Exclusion and the yearning to belong: evidence from the history of 13th-century France
William Chester Jordan; One other on another: Petrus Monachus' Revelationes and Islam
Richard Matthew Pollard; Sculpted images from the Eastern gallery of the Saint-Trophime cloister in Arles and the Cathar heresy
Einat Segal. Part II Foreigners and Outsiders: Wanders between two worlds: Irish and Anglo-Saxon scholars at the court of Charlemagne
Linda Dohmen; Temporary otherness and homiletic history in the late Carolingian age: a reading of the Bella Parisiacae urbis of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Nirmal Dass; Ethnic stereotyping in 12th-century Paris
Claire Weeda. Part III Strangers and Neighbors: Outside the city walls: leprosy
exclusion
and social identity in 12th- and 13th-century Rouen
Elma Brenner; The povres avugles of the Hÿpital des Quinze-Vingts: disability and community in medieval Paris
Mark P. O'Tool; Persecution
marginalization
or tolerance: prostitutes in 13th-century Parisian society
Keiko Nowacka; Scoundrels and scurrilitas at St-Pierre de Sévignac
Peter Scott Brown; Afterword
Barbara A. Hanawalt; Index.