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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of
the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly
innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the
European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious,
the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the
list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be
qualified as "marginal," it is important to interrogate where the
margins lay and what it means that the majority of people occupied
them. In addition, we scholars need to reexamine our use of a term
that seems to have such broad applicability to ensure that we avoid
imposing marginality on groups in the Middle Ages that the era
itself may not have considered as such. In the medieval era, when
belonging to a community was vitally important, people who lived on
the margins of society could be particularly vulnerable. And yet,
as scholars have shown, we ought not forget that this heightened
vulnerability sometimes prompted so-called marginals to form their
own communities, as a way of redefining the center and placing
themselves within it. The present volume explores the concept of
marginality, to whom the moniker has been applied, to whom it might
usefully be applied, and how we might more meaningfully define
marginality based on historical sources rather than modern
assumptions. Although the volume's geographic focus is Europe, the
chapters look further afield to North Africa, the Sahara, and the
Levant acknowledging that at no time, and certainly not in the
Middle Ages, was Europe cut off from other parts of the globe.
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