The Sign Languages of Poverty : International Round table-Discussion, Krems an der Donau, October 10 and 11, 2005

23x15cm, 238 pp. Contains 11 papers [9 in English, 1 in French, 1 in German]. Includes: Poverty constructions and material culture / Gerhard Jaritz -- The presence of poverty : archaeologies of difference and their meaning / David Austin -- Juger les pauvres en France à la fin du Moyen Age / Claude Gauvard -- Gender and the sign language of poverty / Patricia Skinner -- Poverty and disability : a medieval Jewish perspective / Ephraim Shoham- Steiner -- Sozialer Abstieg im Mittelalter / Katharina Simon-Muscheid -- Dame Poverty among saints, poets and humanists : Italian intellectuals confronted with the question of poverty / Maria Bendinelli Predelli -- The wayfaring singer’s penury : use of a literary commonplace / Maria Dobozy --What does poverty look like? : its notion in late medieval Danish wall paintings / Axel Bolvig -- Medieval depictions of "poor queens" in art and text / Nancy B. Black -- The sign language of the "pauperes Christi" / Gá bor Klaniczay -- Poverty on the menu : towards a culinary vocabulary of poverty in medieval Europe / Melitta Weiss Adamson. Series: Ö sterreischischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Forschungen des Instituts fü r Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Diskussionen und Materialien. Nr. 8. …