Table of Contents

1. Introduction

[Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw]

Part I: Health

2. Marginal Bodies and Minds: Responses to Leprosy and Mental Disorders in Late Medieval Normandy

[Elma Brenner]

3. "Not So Deformed in Body as Debauched in Behaviour": Disability and "Marginality" in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

[David M. Turner]

Part II: The Law

4. Medieval Singlewomen in Law and Practice

[Sara M. Butler]

5. Aliens, Native Englishmen and Migration: William Herbert’s Considerations in the Behalf of Foreiners (1662)

[Andrew Spicer]

Part III: Work

6. Down But Not Out: A Case Study in Early Modern Social Mobility from the Margins

[Joel F. Harrington]

7. The Place of African Slaves in Early Modern Spain

[Carmen Fracchia]

8. The Margins in the Centre: Working Around Rialto in Sixteenth-Century Venice

[Rosa M. Salzberg]

Part IV: Morality and the Home

9. Cleaning up the Renaissance City: The Symbolic and Physical Place of the Genoese Brothel in Urban Society

[Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw]

10. Child Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault: Compromised Chastity, Marginalized Lives?

[Sarah Toulalan]

11. Afterword: Constructing Marginality in the Early Modern European City

[Fabrizio Nevola]

About the Author

Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University and a Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society.


Jane Stevens Crawshaw is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University.