Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bronislaw Geremek, Geremek Bronislaw
• Assisted by: Lyndal Roper (Editor), Schmitt Jean-Claude (Foreword), Jean Birrell (Translation), Birrell Jean (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521026123
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02612-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Past and Present Publications; Past and Present Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval