Others and outcasts in early modern Europe : picturing the social margins / edited by Tom Nichols.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Picturing antichrist and others in the Prado 'Epiphany' by Hieronymous Bosch / Debra Higgs Strickland -- The vagabond image: representing false beggars in northern art of the sixteenth century / Tom Nichols -- Poor substitutes: imaging disease and vagrancy in Renaissance Venice / Philip Cottrell -- Poverty and papal piety in Rome, c.1600: painting, pastoralism, and spectacle / Peter Higginson -- Blindness, lameness and mendicancy in Italy (from the 14th to the 18th centuries) / Livio Pestilli -- Caravaggesque toothpuller / John Gash -- Relics of the Golden Age: the vagabond philosopher / Helen Langdon -- Constructing the black slave in early modern Spanish painting / Carmen Fracchia -- ' Some tymes J have a shillinge aday, and some tymes nothinge, so that J leve in great poverty': British actors in the paintings of Frans Hals / M.A. Katritzky -- In search of the marginal and the outcast: the 'lower orders' in the Cries of London and Dublin / Sean Shesgreen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) index.