Significant Others - 9780367903459

Taylor & Francis

Significant OthersAspects of Deviance and Difference in Premodern Court Cultures\nAuthor(s): Zita Eva Rohr, Jonathan W. Spangler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367903459, 978-0367903459\nSynopsis\nSignificant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and nuance with regard to aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures. \n\nBoth public and nominally private spaces were subject to the important influence of significant others, such as women, ethno-religious minorities, and marginalized and/or difficult-to-categorize men. From their positions within and ties to court cultures, these diverse outsiders - others - played crucial roles in maintaining a fluidity essential for the successful sustaining of territorial monarchies and polities, challenging our understanding of the more narrowly defined .