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This is a medieval scene I captured in the park of the Castle of Montrottier (Lovagny - Annecy - France) during a middle age celebration. An old woman dressed in dirty rags, suffering from leprosy or the plague is part of the
20% of the medieval paupers population that were destitute and homeless, wandering the roads of Europe looking for work or for charity.

Most paupers fell into one or another of three groups :
- The physically incompetent: the mentally retarded, blind and deaf, halt and aged, the deformed, maimed or mutilated, "lepers," epileptics, emotionally disturbed, and others.
- The socially marginalized: widows and orphans without protection, any criminals who had been "marked," captured soldiers who had been maimed, old women, the "immoral," and others cast out of their own societies.
- The economically deprived: those who had been left homeless by the agricultural and commercial revolutions.

(source : www.vlib.us)

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