Recounting Deviance - Forms and Practices of Presenting Divergent Behaviour in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

How do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented?
The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources such as chronicles, travel accounts and court records from 15th century England, 15th/16th century Germany, 17th century Spain, 17th/18th century Venice and 17th/18th century Italy and France. It can be asserted that different types of narrative patterns to recount deviance occur intermingled in the cases discussed.

About the author

Jörg Rogge is Professor of History, Middle Ages, at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is also spokesperson of the Research Unit Historical Cultural Sciences, Mainz. His research interests are methods and theory of cultural historical sciences, and social and cultural history of late medieval Europe.

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Besprochen in:
Erdélyi Múzeum, 1 (2017), Andrea Feher
Comitatus, 48 (2017), Maia Farrar
Speculum, 94/2 (2019), Thomas V. Cohen

Product details

• Assisted by: Kristina Müller-Bongard (Editor), Jör Rogge (Editor), Jörg Rogge (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9783837635881
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-3588-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften; Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kulturgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Mittelalter, Siebzehntes Jahrhundert, Sozialgeschichte, Europa, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte: Renaissance, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, Geschichte / Sozialgeschichte, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Geschichte / Kulturgeschichte, Renaissance - Frührenaissance, Culture; Narratology; Italy; England; Germany; France; Spain; Venice; 15th Century; 16th Century; 17th Century; 18th Century; History; Cultural History; Early Modern History; Medieval History; Social History