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Social imagery in Middle Low German : didactical literature and metaphorical representation (1470-1517) / by Cordelia Hess.
LIBRA PF5633 .H47 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Cordelia.
- Series:
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 167.
- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; Volume 167
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Low German language--To 1500--Social aspects.
- Low German language.
- Didactic literature, German--History and criticism.
- Didactic literature, German.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 404 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Contents:
- A space of its own : urban literature from Cologne to Lübeck
- The "real world" : social groups in normative and legal sources
- Tripartitions and their dissolution
- The nine choirs of angels
- The good, the bad and the mighty : the division of society into oppositions
- Revues des états
- The mystical body of Christ
- Exotics : allegories
- Conclusion : a science of (unaccomplished) possibilities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004247758
- 9004247750
- OCLC:
- 846846784
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