Medievalists.net » Gypsies http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries) http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/07/beggars-vagrants-and-romanies-repression-and-persecution-in-portuguese-society-14th%e2%80%9318th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/07/beggars-vagrants-and-romanies-repression-and-persecution-in-portuguese-society-14th%e2%80%9318th-centuries/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:29:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=16720 Beggars, Vagrants and Romanies : Repression and Persecution in Portuguese Society (14th–18th Centuries) Abreu, Laurinda Hygiea Internationalis : An Interdisciplinary Journal for the History of Public Health (2007) Abstract In the Europe that witnessed the construction of the Early Modern States, those who did not have an occupation and refused to work were stigmatized, severely persecuted, […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/07/beggars-vagrants-and-romanies-repression-and-persecution-in-portuguese-society-14th%e2%80%9318th-centuries/feed/ 0 The Gypsies and Their Impact on Fifteenth-Century Western European Iconography http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-gypsies-and-their-impact-on-fifteenth-century-western-european-iconography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-gypsies-and-their-impact-on-fifteenth-century-western-european-iconography/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:46:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14717 Since Gypsies had no chroniclers of their own, their history is difficult to reconstruct. The origin of the Gypsies was a complete mystery until late in the eighteenth century, when their derivation from India was proved by means of early linguistic com- parison.

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