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At the Margins - Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Paperback, REV)
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At the Margins - Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Paperback, REV)
Series: Medieval Cultures
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Slaves, foundlings, prostitutes, nuns, homosexuals, exiles, the
elderly, and mountain communities - such groups stood at the
margins of society in premodern Italy. But where precisely the
margins were was not so easily determined. Examining these
minorities as the buffer zones between more readily recognizable
centers, At the Margins explores identity as a process rather than
a fixed entity, stressing the multiplicity of groups to which
individuals belonged. By tracing the shifting relations of social
margins to centers in Italy between the thirteenth and seventeenth
centuries - and showing how these shifts in turn relate to social
order and identity formation - the authors challenge entrenched
ideas about the nature of the Renaissance and its role in shaping
modernity. Behind much cultural theory lies a critique of the
centrality of modernity and its foundations in the discourse of
Renaissance humanism. And yet, as this volume reveals, the insights
of contemporary cultural theory serve to expose the flaws in this
picture of cultural hegemony and, in decentering the Renaissance,
return it to the heart of cultural debate.
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