The place of the social margins, 1350-1750 / edited by Andrew Spicer and Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw -- Health -- Marginal bodies and minds : responses to leprosy and mental disorders in late medieval Normandy / Elma Brenner -- "Not so deformed in body as debauched in behaviour" : disability and "marginality" in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England / David M. Turner -- The law -- Medieval singlewomen in law and practice / Sara M. Butler -- Aliens, native englishmen and migration : William Herbert's considerations in the behalf of foreiners (1662) / Andrew Spicer -- Work -- Down but not out : a case study in early modern social mobility from the margins / Joel F. Harrington -- The place of African slaves in early modern Spain / Carmen Fracchia -- The margins in the centre : working around rialto in sixteenth-century Venice / Rosa M. Salzberg -- Morality and the home -- Cleaning up the renaissance city : the symbolic and physical place of the Genoese brothel in urban society / Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw -- Child victims of rape and sexual assault : compromised chastity, marginalized lives? / Sarah Toulalan -- Afterword: constructing marginality in the early modern european city / Fabrizio Nevola -- Contributors -- Index.