Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe: Picturing the Social Margins

by Tom Nichols

Book Overview

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The volume offers a comprehensive and groundbreaking analysis of a wide range of images featuring Jews and Turks, roguish beggars, syphilitics and plague victims, the 'deserving poor', toothpullers, beggar philosophers, black slaves, itinerant actors and street hawkers. Its broad geographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754655571
• ISBN13: 9780754655572
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"