Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Foreword 1
5. Introduction All but Marginal: The Co-Constructions of Otherness in the Middle Ages 3
6. Part I: The Fundamental Edge
7. Chapter 1 Reading in Community, Writing a Community: Douceline’s Vida and the Beguines of Roubaud 23
8. Chapter 2 “No More Horrified by Them”: Royal Holy Women and Lepers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hagiography 59
9. Chapter 3 Exclusion and Marginalization of Widows in Late Medieval Barcelona 75
10. Chapter 4 Ageing Women, (In)Visible Bodies: Iconographies on the Edge in Late-Medieval Iberia (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) 93
11. Part II: The Religious Edge
12. Chapter 5 Catharistae in Question: A Case of Rupture in the Manichaean Sect 119
13. Chapter 6 Art, Iconography, and Orthodoxy between the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Case of the Ascension 141
14. Chapter 7 The Early Cistercian Order and the Persecution of Heresy: Bernard of Clairvaux’s and Geoffrey of Auxerre’s Attitudes Towards the Violent Persecution of Heretics 159
15. Chapter 8 From Persecution to Exile: Jewish Views on Christians and Christianity in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon 177
16. Part III: The Edge of Society
17. Chapter 9 Social Domination and Resistance: Slavery in the Medieval Christian Western Mediterranean 201
18. Chapter 10 Diverging Views of the “Leper” in Legal, Literary, and Doctrinal Texts from Thirteenth-Century Western Europe 221
19. Chapter 11 On the Margins of Society: Exclusion through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo 237
20. Chapter 12 Defying Containment: The Use of the Frame in Depictions of Monstrous Peoples in Monte Cassino Rhabanus Maurus Codex 251
21. Notes on Contributors 267
22. Index 271