MIquel FAUS FAUS

Other works and other workers: scrap metal dealers in medieval València

Altres treballs i altres treballadors: els ferrovellers en la València medieval

Published in Life and Thought, Religiosity and Conflict, Pleasure and Crime on Both Sides of the Mediterranean (the Crown of Aragon and Acre)

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When we study the material culture of any time, special attention is paid to the different lives that an object has from its manufacture to its recycling. Through series of documents from different records, we will try to analyse the work of one of the professionals of the second-hand market: the scrap metal dealer. In the same way, we will try to understand the social image of a group that was frequently close to marginality.