by TomNichols (Editor)
Focuses on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of a 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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 225
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published: 25 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0754655571
ISBN 13: 9780754655572