{"product_id":"other-middle-ages-witnesses-at-the-margins-of-medieval-society-paperback-softback-9780812216547","title":"Other Middle Ages; Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812216547","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOther Middle Ages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWitnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Goodich (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812216547\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.414 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone interested in medieval history would profit from this well-conceived and well-translated collection of sources.\"-\u003ci\u003eChurch History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOther Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an important balance to the many source collections that reflect the ideology of the dominant classes and neglect the voices that bring us insights from the edge of society. Goodich's anthology opens a new chapter in medieval studies, focusing on the margins and the people living there.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of Medieval Europe have much to tell us about the society that defined them. More than just a fascinating cast of characters, the visionaries and sexual dissidents, the suicidal and psychologically unbalanced, the lepers and converts of Medieval times reveal the fears of a people for whom life was made both meaningful and terrifying by the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter centuries of historical silence, these and other disenfranchised members of the medieval public have been given voice by Michael Goodich in a unique collection of texts from the mid-eleventh through the fourteenth century. Translated from their original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, these texts, many of them first person narratives or testimonies, give insight into those figures who made Medieval society uneasy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into chapters dealing with the Jewish community, apostates and converts, sexual nonconformists, victims of the Devil, Christian heretics, and the liminal and temporarily marginalized. The texts included both give spiritual voice to such groups, and illuminate the more mundane affairs of their daily lives-child rearing, social life, economic difficulties, sexuality, dreams, emotional instability, and gender relations among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676657217816,"sku":"9780812216547","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/other-middle-ages-witnesses-at-the-margins-of-medieval-society-paperback-softback-9780812216547","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}