The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris

Bronislaw Geremek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2006
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02612-3 (ISBN)

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This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals, casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society. Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to the study of late medieval society which illuminates the little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's life and career to date.

Foreword Jean-Claude Schmitt; Introduction; 1. Criminality and its social milieu; 2. The sources; 3. The social topography of Paris; 4. The criminal and his group; 5. Clerks and bohemians; 6. Charity and beggars; 7. The world of prostitution; 8. The world of work and the world of crime; 9. The boundaries of the marginal world; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.4.2006
Reihe/Serie	Past and Present Publications
Übersetzer	Jean Birrell
Vorwort	Jean-Claude Schmitt
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-521-02612-1 / 0521026121
ISBN-13	978-0-521-02612-3 / 9780521026123
Zustand	Neuware