Living Dangerously
Subtitle: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Contributors: Barbara A. Hanawalt (Editor); Anna Grotans (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780268030827
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History; History - General History; Sociology; History: World; Essays; Medieval; Minority Studies - General; Crime; Europe; Marginality, Social; Medieval, 500-1500; Social History
Description: "Some of the essays in Living Dangerously explore obvious marginalized classes, such as criminals, gypsies, and prostitutes, others challenge traditional understandings of the margin by showing that female mystics, speculators in the Dutch mercantile empire, and writers of satire, for example, could fall into the margins. These essays reveal the symbiotic relationship that exists between the marginalized and the social establishment : the dominant culture needs its margins."--Jacket.