Electronic Publication/s materials Gerhard Jaritz The sign languages of poverty ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-3788-7 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-3967-6 Subject Area: Modern History refereed - online - print

Titelei 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