Living on the Edge
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Edited by:
Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel
About this book
This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.
Author / Editor information
Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Laura Miquel Milian, University of the Basque Country, Spain.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
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Introduction All but Marginal: The Co-Constructions of Otherness in the Middle Ages
3 - Part I: The Fundamental Edge
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Chapter 1 Reading in Community, Writing a Community: Douceline’s Vida and the Beguines of Roubaud
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Chapter 2 “No More Horrified by Them”: Royal Holy Women and Lepers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hagiography
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Chapter 3 Exclusion and Marginalization of Widows in Late Medieval Barcelona
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Chapter 4 Ageing Women, (In)Visible Bodies: Iconographies on the Edge in Late-Medieval Iberia (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
93 - Part II: The Religious Edge
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Chapter 5 Catharistae in Question: A Case of Rupture in the Manichaean Sect
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Chapter 6 Art, Iconography, and Orthodoxy between the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Case of the Ascension
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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
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Chapter 8 From Persecution to Exile: Jewish Views on Christians and Christianity in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
177 - Part III: The Edge of Society
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Chapter 9 Social Domination and Resistance: Slavery in the Medieval Christian Western Mediterranean
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Chapter 10 Diverging Views of the “Leper” in Legal, Literary, and Doctrinal Texts from Thirteenth-Century Western Europe
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Chapter 11 On the Margins of Society: Exclusion through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo
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Chapter 12 Defying Containment: The Use of the Frame in Depictions of Monstrous Peoples in Monte Cassino Rhabanus Maurus Codex
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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