Recounting Deviance

Forms and Practices of Presenting Divergent Behaviour in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Edited by Jörg Rogge in collaboration with Kristina Müller-Bongard.

How do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented?The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources such as chronicles, travel accounts and court records from 15th century England, 15th/16th century Germany, 17th century Spain, 17th/18th century Venice and 17th/18th century Italy and France. It can be asserted that different types of narrative patterns to recount deviance occur intermingled in the cases discussed. - Contents: Jörg Rogge: Recounting Deviance. Forms and practices of presenting divergent behaviour in the Late Middle Agesand Early Modern Period. An Introduction. - Regina Schäfer: Talkİng about deviance? Insult and humiliation in the Ingelheim Court Records. - Judith Mengler: The Presentation of Deviant Behaviour in the Crowland Chronîcle Continuations. - Monika Frohnapfel-Leis: An enchantress, a saint and a prophetess. How religious deviance ís described in Spanish Inquisition trials. - Luca Vettore: Blasphemy on Trial. Splinters of deviant recounts from 17th century Venice. - Giulia Morosini: "...fossimo presi per incantamento". Witchcraft and love deviances ¡n the trials of Venice’s "Santo Uffizio" in the XVII century. - Federico Barbierato: Representations of Deviance. Inquisitorial Practices and Feminine Divergence ín Venice between the 17th and 18th centuries. - Sebastian Becker: "Miscellaneous remarks". Recounting deviance in Early Modern travel accounts. - 208 Seiten, broschiert (Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften; Vol. 34/transcript Verlag 2016)