The Poor and other Marginal Groups
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Discussion Topics and Essay Questions
- Which groups were marginalized in early modern Europe, and why?
- What considerations shaped the distribution of poor relief in early modern Europe?
- How marginal were 'marginal' groups in early modern society?
Documents
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Secondary Literature
Selected Key Texts
- J.P. Gibbs, ‘Conceptions of Deviant Behaviour: the Old and the New’, in M. Lefton et al (eds), Approaches to Deviance (1968), pp. 44-55.
- R. Jütte, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (1994)
- B.J. Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe ( 2007) (ebook)
- W. G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (1997)
- B. Pullan, 'Catholics, Protestants, and the Poor in Early Modern Europe', Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35/3 (2005), pp. 441-456.
- P. Roberts, ‘Marginals and Deviants’, in Kümin (ed.), The European World (2009) [course handbook]
Further Reading
a) The Poor
- T. Fehler, Poor Relief and Protestantism: The Evolution of Social Welfare in Sixteenth-Century Emden (1999)
- R. von Friedeburg, ‘Reformation of Manners and the social composition of offenders in an East Anglian cloth village: Earls Colne, 1531-1642’, Journal of British Studies 29 (1990)
- S. Hindle, On the Parish: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England 1550-1750 (2004)
- S. Hindle, 'Power, Poor Relief, and Social Relations in Holland Fen, c. 1600-1800,' in The Historical Journal, vol. 41, no. 1 (1998)
- R. Hsia, Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe 1550-1750 (1989)
- O. Hufton, The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France (1974)
- L. Martz, Poverty and Welfare in Habsburg Spain: The Example of Toledo (1983) (ebook)
- K. Norberg, Rich and Poor in Grenoble, 1600-1814 (1985)
- B. Pullan, Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice: The Social Institutions of a Catholic State (1971) (ebook)
- B. Pullan, 'Support and redeem: charity and poor relief in Italian cities from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century', Continuity and Change 3, special issue 2 (1988), 177-208.
- K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling 1525-1700 (rev. edn, 1995)
- P. Fumerton, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England (2006)
- O. P. Grell et al. (eds), Health care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe (1999)
- O. P. Grell and A. Cunningham, Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 (1997) (ebook)
- P. Slack, Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1998)
b) Non-Christian minorities, esp. Jews and Muslims
- K. Aron-Beller, 'Disciplining Jews: the Papal Inquisition of Modena, 1598-1630', Sixteenth Century Journal, 41, no. 3 (2010), 713-29
- M. Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (New York, 2011) (ebook)
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Y. Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain (1966)
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M. Bodian, ‘“Men of the Nation”: The Shaping of Converso Identity in Early Modern Europe’, Past and Present, 143 (1994)
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" , Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (1997)
- B. Braude & B. Lewis, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society (New York, 1982)
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J. Casey, Early Modern Spain: a Social History (1999), esp. chapter 10 (ebook)
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A. Chejne, Islam and the West: the Moriscos, a Cultural and Social History (1983)
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N. Fiering & P. Bernardini (eds), The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 (2001)
- M. Goldish (ed.), Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period (Princeton, 2008) [Primary Sources Collection] (ebook)
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L.P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614 (2006) (ebook)
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A. Hess,‘The Moriscos: an Ottoman fifth column’, American Historical Review 74 (1968-9)
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J.I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550-1750 (1985)
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M. Jonsonn, ‘The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain in 1609-1614: the Destruction of an Islamic Periphery’, Journal of Global History 2 (2007)
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H.C. Lea, The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion (1968) (ebook)
- A. Levy, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 1994)
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B. Lewis, Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995) (ebook)
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R.L. Kagan and A. Dyer (eds), Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics (2004)
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H. Kamen, Inquisition and Society in Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1985)
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“ , The Spanish Inquisition: a Historical Revision (1998)
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M.D. Meyerson and E. English (eds), Christians, Muslims and Jews in medieval and early modern Spain; interaction and cultural change (2000)
- M.E. Perry, The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Spain (Princeton, 2005) (ebooK)
- B. Pullan, The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670 (London, 1997)
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C. Roth, A History of the Marranos (1974)
- D. B. Ruderman, Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History (2010)
- M. Teter, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post-Reformation Era (2006) (ebook)
c) Other Groups (esp. sexual deviants, vagrants and lepers)
- P.L. Allen, The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present (Chicago, 2000), esp. chaps. 2-4
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A.L. Beier, Masterless Men: the Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 (1985)
- ", 'Vagrants and the Social Order in Elizabethan England,' Past and Present, 64 (Aug., 1974)
- C. Bingham, ‘Seventeenth-Century Attitudes Toward Deviant Sex’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1, no. 3 (1971), 447-68.
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J.K. Brackett, ‘The Florentine Onesta and the Control of Prostitution, 1403-1680’, SCJ, 24 (1993)
- A. Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (1982)
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E.S. Cohen, ‘Seen and Known: Prostitutes in the Cityscape of Late-Sixteenth-Century Rome’, Renaissance Studies, 12, no. 3 (Sept., 1998)
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K. Crawford, European Sexualities, 1400-1800 (2007), esp. chaps. 4-5
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J. Dillinger, ‘Terrorists and Witches: Popular Ideas of Evil in the Early Modern Period’, History of European Ideas, 30, no. 2 (2004)
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B.M. Donovan, ‘Changing Perceptions of Social Deviance: Gypsies in Early Modern Portugal and Brazil’, Journal of Social History, 26 (1992)
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F. Egmond, Underworlds: Organized Crime in the Netherlands, 1650-1800 (1993)
- D. Gentilcore, ‘The Fear of Disease and the Disease of Fear’, in W.G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997), pp. 44-61
- P. Griffiths, ‘The Structure of Prostitution in Elizabethan London’, Continuity and Change, 8, no. 1 (1993), 39-63
- D. Hitcock, Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 (2016).
- M.S.R. Jenner, ‘The Great Dog Massacre’, in W.G. Naphy and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester, 1997), 184-208
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R. Jütte, Poverty and Deviance in Early Modern Europe (1994)
- Milner, Stephen J., ed., At the Margins: minority groups in premodern Italy (Minneapolis, 2005), esp. ch 4.
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W.G. Naphy, Sex Crimes: Renaissance to Enlightenment (2002)
- W.G. Naphy, Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps, c. 1530-1640 (Manchester, 2002)
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“ and P. Roberts (eds), Fear in Early Modern Society (1997)
- K. O'Donnell and M. O'Rourke (eds), Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same Sex Desire in the Early Modern World (2006) (e-book)
- M.E. Perry, ‘Deviant Insiders: Legalized Prostitutes and a Consciousness of Women in Early Modern Seville’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 27, no. 1 (1985), 138-158
- P.A. Russell, ‘Syphilis: God’s Scourge or Nature’s Vengeance?’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 80 (1989), 286-306 [available as print journal in the Library]
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K. Stuart, Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honour and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (1999)
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C. Dionne and S. Mentz (eds), Rogues and Early Modern English culture (2004) (ebook)
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L. Woodbridge, Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature (2001)
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External Links
- Jews in the Early Modern Period - essays and documents relating to Jewish and Hebraic studies
- Judaic Manuscripts - in the British Library
- Centre for Jewish History - catalogue of digital materials
- People with a History: online guide to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history
- Highwaymen - documents relating to the history of the Highwaymen
and their Predecessors - England's Immigrants, 1330-1550 - database containing names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death
- Criminal statutes in Bamburg - collection of documents in German