Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 150152111X ISBN 13 : 9781501521119

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2022

Synopsis

This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Laura Miquel Milian, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This volume addresses the widespread medieval phenomenon of transgression as both a result of and the cause for the exclusion and persecution of those who were considered different. It is widely accepted that the essence of a manuscript cannot be fully grasped without studying its marginalia. Glosses sit on the margins of the text and clarify it, adding a whole new dimension to it and becoming an inextricable part of its content. Similarly, no society can be fully understood without knowledge of what lies on its margins, for the outliers of any given culture provide us with just as much information as its alleged foundational principles. In a time when the Western world ponders building walls up against perceived threats and frightening differences, this multidisciplinary collection of essays based on original and innovative pieces of research shows that it was mostly through tearing down walls that we learned our way forward.

Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel is a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate in the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard University and works on religious dissent and persecution.

Laura Miquel Milian is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and specializes in public finances.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 150152111X
• ISBN 13: 9781501521119
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Nieto-Isabel Delfi I, Miquel Milian Laura
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; info@degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne