Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe / edited by Jeffrey Denton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denton, J. H. (Jeffrey Howard)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social structure--Europe--History.

Social structure.

History.

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.

Europe.

Social conditions.

Europe--Social conditions--16th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 p.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Summary:

This Collection Of Essays Examines Different, But Linked, Aspects Of The Social organization of Europe from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays broach two fundamental questions: how were social distinctions and divisions perceived and portrayed by the politically active, the writers, and the image-makers; and, bound up with the first question, according to what principles and methods should the modern enquirer perceive and portray the ordering of society during Western Europe's formative years? The contributors bring perspectives from a range of disciplines, from historical, sociological, and literary to the art-historical and theoretical. Similarly, the contents are not limited to Northwestern Europe, but also address the Muslim Middle East, Dante's Italy, Renaissance Venice, and Adriatic Ragusa (Dubrovnik). An important contribution to the areas of late-medieval and early-modern European social history.

Contents:

1 Approaches to Pre-Industrial Social Structure / Stephen Rigby 6

2 European and Middle Eastern Views of Hierarchy and Order in the Middle Ages: A Comparison / Antony Black 26

3 Dante: Order, Justice and the Society of Orders / Spencer Pearce 33

4 Froissardian Perspectives on Late-Fourteenth-Century Society / Peter Ainsworth 56

5 Hierarchies and Orders in English Royal Images of Power / Paul Binski 74

6 Heraldry and Hierarchy: Esquires and Gentlemen / Maurice Keen 94

7 The Risings of the Commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush 109

8 Tidy Structures and Messy Practice: Ideologies of Order and the Practicalities of Office-Holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom 126

9 'Three Orders of Inhabitants': Social Hierarchies in the Republic of Venice / Brian Pullan 147.

ISBN:

0802044832

0802082645

OCLC:

39664611