At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Medieval Cultures) - Softcover

 
9780816638215: At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy (Medieval Cultures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816638217 ISBN 13: 9780816638215
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Slaves, foundlings, prostitutes, nuns, homosexuals, exiles, the elderly, and mountain communities - such groups stood at the margins of society in premodern Italy. But where precisely the margins were was not so easily determined. Examining these minorities as the buffer zones between more readily recognizable centers, At the Margins explores identity as a process rather than a fixed entity, stressing the multiplicity of groups to which individuals belonged. By tracing the shifting relations of social margins to centers in Italy between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries - and showing how these shifts in turn relate to social order and identity formation - the authors challenge entrenched ideas about the nature of the Renaissance and its role in shaping modernity. Behind much cultural theory lies a critique of the centrality of modernity and its foundations in the discourse of Renaissance humanism. And yet, as this volume reveals, the insights of contemporary cultural theory serve to expose the flaws in this picture of cultural hegemony and, in decentering the Renaissance, return it to the heart of cultural debate.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stephen J. Milner is senior lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol.Contributors: Judith Bryce, U of Bristol; Peter Burke, U of Cambridge; Samuel K, Cohn, Jr., U of Glasgow; Derek Duncan, U of Bristol; Steven A. Epstein, U of Kansas; Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis U; Mary Laven, Jesus College; Michael Rocke, Harvard U; Dennis Romano, Syracuse U; Kenneth R. Stow, U of Haifa; Anabel Thomas.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816638217
ISBN 13 
9780816638215
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Herausgeber
Milner Stephen J.
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