Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France

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Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, ranging from ethnic and linguistic difference in Charlemagne's court, to lewd sculpture in Béarn, to prostitution and destitution in Paris. Arranged thematically, the sections progress from the discussion of tolerance and intolerance, through the clearly defined notion of foreignness, to the complex study of stranger identity in the medieval period. As a whole the volume presents a fresh, intriguing perspective on questions of exclusion and belonging in the medieval world. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: MARGINALIZATION AND PERSECUTION 1 Exclusion and the Yearning to Belong: Evidence from the History of Thirteenth-Century France 2 One Other on Another: Petrus Monachus' Revelationes and Islam 3 Sculpted Images from the Eastern Gallery of the Saint-Trophime Cloister in Arles and the Cathar Heresy PART II: FOREIGNERS AND OUTSIDERS 4 Wanderers between Two Worlds: Irish and Anglo-Saxon Scholars at the Court of Charlemagne 5 Temporary Otherness and Homiletic History in the Late Carolingian Age: A Reading of the Bella Parisiacae urbis of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 6 Ethnic Stereotyping in Twelfth-Century Paris PART III: STRANGERS AND NEIGHBORS 7 Outside the City Walls: Leprosy, Exclusion, and Social Identity in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen 8 The povres avugles of the Hôpital des Quinze-Vingts: Disability and Community in Medieval Paris 9 Persecution, Marginalization, or Tolerance: Prostitutes in Thirteenth-Century Parisian Society 10 Scoundrels and Scurrilitas at St-Pierre de Sévignac Afterword Index