Nieto-Isabel and Laura Miquel Milian ISBN 978-1-5015-2111-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-5015-1486-9 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-5015-1488-3 ISSN 0085-6878 Library of Congress Control Number: 2022938893 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie detailed bibliographic data are available on the internet at. Living on the Edge Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture LXXXIII Living on the Edge Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages Edited by Delfi I. Nine captivating illustrations by American artist Rebecca Green, and a specially commissioned introduction by celebrated author Jane Gardam, acknowledge the novel’s enduring themes of human relationships and female empowerment.Table of contents : Acknowledgements Table of Contents Foreword Introduction All but Marginal: The Co-Constructions of Otherness in the Middle Ages Part I: The Fundamental Edge Chapter 1 Reading in Community, Writing a Community: Douceline’s Vida and the Beguines of Roubaud Chapter 2 “No More Horrified by Them”: Royal Holy Women and Lepers in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hagiography Chapter 3 Exclusion and Marginalization of Widows in Late Medieval Barcelona Chapter 4 Ageing Women, (In)Visible Bodies: Iconographies on the Edge in Late-Medieval Iberia (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries) Part II: The Religious Edge Chapter 5 Catharistae in Question: A Case of Rupture in the Manichaean Sect Chapter 6 Art, Iconography, and Orthodoxy between the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Case of the Ascension Chapter 7 The Early Cistercian Order and the Persecution of Heresy: Bernard of Clairvaux’s and Geoffrey of Auxerre’s Attitudes Towards the Violent Persecution of Heretics Chapter 8 From Persecution to Exile: Jewish Views on Christians and Christianity in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon Part III: The Edge of Society Chapter 9 Social Domination and Resistance: Slavery in the Medieval Christian Western Mediterranean Chapter 10 Diverging Views of the “Leper” in Legal, Literary, and Doctrinal Texts from Thirteenth-Century Western Europe Chapter 11 On the Margins of Society: Exclusion through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo Chapter 12 Defying Containment: The Use of the Frame in Depictions of Monstrous Peoples in Monte Cassino Rhabanus Maurus Codex Notes on Contributors Index Recommend Papers The two parts were published as a single novel in 1880 the story has never lost its appeal, and, 150 years later, the feminist leanings of the female-led narrative still resonate. This hugely popular Folio edition celebrates the novel’s classic status with a stunning gold-blocked binding and exquisite printed endpapers. This semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story follows four sisters growing up in rural 19 th-century New England, and the independent and outspoken main character is based on the author herself.Īn instant bestseller on publication in 1868, Alcott went on to write a sequel the following year, published under the title Good Wives, which is also included in our edition. So when her publisher Thomas Niles asked her to write a novel for girls, she did so reluctantly, and yet, in just ten weeks, Alcott wrote what was to become one of the best-known novels of all time. Prior to the publication of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott earned her living writing Gothic pulp fiction.
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