This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society.

Foreword Jean-Claude Schmitt; Introduction; 1. Criminality and its social milieu; 2. The sources; 3. The social topography of Paris; 4. The criminal and his group; 5. Clerks and bohemians; 6. Charity and beggars; 7. The world of prostitution; 8. The world of work and the world of crime; 9. The boundaries of the marginal world; Conclusion; Notes; Index.