Difference in medieval France was not solely a marker for social exclusion, provoking feelings of disgust and disaffection, but it could also create solidarity and sympathy among groups. Contributors to this volume address inclusion and exclusion from a variety of perspectives, presenting a fresh, intriguing perspective on the notion of belonging in the medieval world.

Meredith Cohen, Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History, University of Oxford Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Lecturer in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews

Contents: Introduction, Justine Firnhaber-Baker; Part I Marginalization and Persecution: Exclusion and the yearning to belong: evidence from the history of 13th-century France, William Chester Jordan; One other on another: Petrus Monachus' Revelationes and Islam, Richard Matthew Pollard; Sculpted images from the Eastern gallery of the Saint-Trophime cloister in Arles and the Cathar heresy, Einat Segal. Part II Foreigners and Outsiders: Wanders between two worlds: Irish and Anglo-Saxon scholars at the court of Charlemagne, Linda Dohmen; Temporary otherness and homiletic history in the late Carolingian age: a reading of the Bella Parisiacae urbis of Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Nirmal Dass; Ethnic stereotyping in 12th-century Paris, Claire Weeda. Part III Strangers and Neighbors: Outside the city walls: leprosy, exclusion, and social identity in 12th- and 13th-century Rouen, Elma Brenner; The povres avugles of the Hÿpital des Quinze-Vingts: disability and community in medieval Paris, Mark P. O'Tool; Persecution, marginalization, or tolerance: prostitutes in 13th-century Parisian society, Keiko Nowacka; Scoundrels and scurrilitas at St-Pierre de Sévignac, Peter Scott Brown; Afterword, Barbara A. Hanawalt; Index.