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Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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Just as class is a key term for understanding modern Europe, so hierarchy and order are the key terms for the earlier period. These exceptional essays by some of the leading historians in the field are designed to allow students to get a better grasp on this critical subject. Life in the late medieval and early modern periods was simply organized in a very different way to that of the industrial or post-industrial society we are accustomed to. Each essay tackles a different aspect of this European-wide experience - whether looking at the nobility, the gentry, the commons or the religious castes, the contributors greatly increase our ability to understand the complex and fascinating phenomenon of how society ticks and how it is perceived by its members to tick.
Table of Contents
Introduction; J.Denton
Approaches to Pre-industrial Social Structure; S.Rigby
European and Middle Eastern Views of Order and Hierarchy in the Middle Ages: A Comparison; A.Black
Dante: Order, Justice and the Society of Orders; S.Pearce
Froissardian Perspectives on Late Fourteenth-Century Society; P.Ainsworth
Hierarchies and Orders in English Royal Images of Power; P.Binski
Heraldry and Hierarchy: Esquires and Gentlemen; M.Keen
The Risings of the Commons in England, 1381-1549; M.Bush
Tidy Structures and Messy Practice: Ideologies of Order and the Practicalities of Office-holding in Ragusa; D.Rheubottom
'Three Orders of Inhabitants': Social Hierarchies in the Republic of Venice; B.Pullan
Notes
Bibliographical Guides
Notes on Contributors
Index.
Product details
| Published | 30 Jun 1999 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781349275809 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Series | Problems in Focus: Manchester |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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