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The sign languages of poverty

The sign languages of poverty

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-3788-7
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-3967-6
Subject AreaModern History
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page 1

Table of contents

page 3

Gerhard Jaritz

Preface

page 5

Gerhard Jaritz

Poverty Constructions and Material Culture

page 7

David Austin

The Presence of Poverty: Archaeologies of Difference and Their Meaning

page 19

Claude Gauvard

Juger les pauvres en France à la fin du Moyen Âge

page 43

Patricia Skinner

Gender and the Sign Languages of Poverty

page 59

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Poverty and Disability: A Medieval Jewish Perspective

page 75

Katharina Simon-Muscheid

Sozialer Abstieg im Mittelalter

page 95

Maria Bendinelli Predelli

Dame Poverty among Saints, Poets and Humanists: Italian Intellectuals Confronted with the Question of Poverty

page 119

Maria Dobozy

The Wayfaring Singer’s Penury: Use of a Literary Commonplace

page 149

Axel Bolvig

What Does Poverty Look Like? Its Notion in Late Medieval Danish Wall Paintings

page 165

Nancy B. Black

Medieval Depictions of “Poor Queens” in Art and Text

page 177

Gábor Klaniczay

The Sign Language of the “Pauperes Christi”

page 201

Melitta Weiss Adamson

Poverty on the Menu: Towards a Culinary Vocabulary of Poverty in Medieval Europe

page 221

Addresses of the Contributors

page 237