Das Wiener Handwerksordnungsbuch (1364–1555)

Gneiß, Markus

doi:10.7767/9783205206040

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Cities of Strangers

Rubin¹

2020

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T HE TERM 'STRANGER' -FORINSECUS, FORENSIS -WAS USED IN MEDIEVAL TEXTS to describe a whole array of groups and individuals. It was most usually used to describe newcomers from villages or small towns in proximity to a city, in the first stages of their relation to the town or city, before they became settled, incolae. These were usually people of modest meansvariously trained and skilledwhose absorption into urban life often went undocumented. 'Strangers' also described newcomers from further afield, people with distinctive dialects and occupations, associated with other cities or realms, whose presence was often reinforced by chains of migration, like German merchants in twelfth-century London, or Tuscan bankers in thirteenth-century Provence. A pathway to citizenship was open to such newcomers if they wished to associate their lives with the city. To these two groups we may add individuals and groups in towns and cities who were not foreigners, yet to whom a quality of 'strangerhood' was attached, what Simona Cerutti has called 'extranéité'. 1 Indeed, a cognate word was sometimes used, as in the statutes

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