Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Edited by M. L. Brown

Book cover: Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Extent: 225 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Series volume number: 47

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2021)

ISBN: 9782503597034

Price: $95.00

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Spanning five continents, this volume examines how the motives and methods of marginalization shaped the literature, economies, art, politics, and mythology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.


The essays in this collection explore the motives and methods of marginalization throughout pre-modern Europe, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, and areas that are now Mexico, Iran, Peru, Syria, and Costa Rica. The authors offer a rich variety of perspectives on precarity and privilege, resistance and hybridity, they unpack the intersections of power, tradition, and difference, and they examine the relationship of marginality to both violence and creativity not only in the global Middle Ages and Renaissance but also in our present moment. While deepening readers’ understanding of our antecedents, the collection illuminates the contemporary urgency of being ‘ethically awake to the needs, sufferings, sorrows, and dignity of others around the globe’.

  • Edited by M. L. Brown