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Female Marginalized Professions of Late Medieval European Society
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: Received: 15 December 2023 / Approved: 18 December 2023 / Online: 19 December 2023 (09:24:23 CET)
How to cite: Peirats, A. Female Marginalized Professions of Late Medieval European Society. Preprints 2023, 2023121371. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1371.v1 Peirats, A. Female Marginalized Professions of Late Medieval European Society. Preprints 2023, 2023121371. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.1371.v1
Abstract
This article focuses on the description of the other view of Valencia in the fifteenth century, that of social marginalization, which could be manifested by the fact of exercising various trades considered immoral. In the following pages, a description is offered of two female collectives that are particularly treated as vile and despicable: that of healers, sorceresses and witches, whose strength was considered to stem from a demonic origin, and that of prostitutes, dedicated to covering a "lesser evil" in society but seen as unworthy by society because of the practical exercise of their trade.
Keywords
marginalization; healers; witches; brothel; repentance; sinners
Subject
Arts and Humanities, History
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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