Journal Name:
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Mediterranco
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Abstract (2. Language):
In the social ambiance of Siglo de Oro, one of the most frequently practiced alternatives to poor relief and begging was theft. Little wonder that this type of crime (robbery, burglary, fraud) was the most common one, or at least it was more common than suicides and woundings. With the emergence of the picaroons as a corrupted social class, theft became one of the most stressed and underlined themes in the literature of Siglo de Oro. Undoubtedly, the picaresque novels and the other literary works that comprise picaresque elements help the historian to draw the social portrait of the criminal communities of the 16th and 17th century Spain.
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