This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized
women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to
1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories:
women whose religious practices put them on the social margins,
"common women" who are in society but not of society because they
are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason
enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for
countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how
official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a
princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how
one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being
the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval
Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume
is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on
the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the
taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.
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