Showing status : representation of social positions in the late Middle Ages / edited by Wim Blockmans and Antheun Janse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blockmans, Wim, 1945-

Contributor:

Blockmans, Wim, 1945-

Janse, A.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 2.

Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social status--Europe--History.

Social status.

Social classes--Europe--History.

Social classes.

History.

Europe.

Social status in literature.

Social status in art.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 491 pages) : illustrations.

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 1999.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multidisciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change. The premise of the volume is that medieval social change may only be fully understood if hierarchies of wealth and power are examined alongside literary and artistic sources. Medieval texts and material culture expressed social standing and gave meaning to the experience of social change. The aim of the study is to recognise and translate the language of symbols used to encode and display status in the late Middle Ages.

Contents:

The feeling of being oneself / Wim Blockmans

Showing off one's rank in the Middle Ages / Raymond Van Uytven

Attitudes and social positioning in courtly romances: Hainault, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Danielle Quéruel

Gifts of mourning-cloth at the Brabantine court in the fifteenth century / Robert Stein

Self-representation of court and city in Flanders and Brabant in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / Wim Blockmans and Esther Donckers

Marriage and noble lifestyle in Holland in the late Middle Ages / Antheun Janse

On the nature of true nobility: views from Dutch courtiers in the early fifteenth century / Jeanne Verbij-Schillings

Rich men, poor men: social stratification and social representation at the university (13th-16th centuries) / Hilde de Ridder-Symoens

Around Saint George: integration and precedence during the meetings of the civil militia of the Hague / Fred J.W. van Kan.

Ownership of graves in medieval parish churches in Holland / Koen Goudriaan.

Love and marriage: fictional perspectives / Annelies van Gusen

Functions of fiction: fighting spouses around 1500 / Wim Blockmans and Tess Neijzen

Visual comments of the mutability of social positions and values in Netherlandish and German art of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Hans-Joachim Raupp

The wearing of significative badges, religious and secular: the social meaning of a behavioural pattern / Jos Koldeweij

Treacherously significant woodcarving: woodcuts in Dutch-language (post- )incunabula as a source for socio-historical research / Hanneke de Bruin

Jan van Ruusbroec and the social position of late medieval mysticism / Geert Warnar

The position of the artist in the fifteenth century: salaries and social mobility / Maximiliaan P.J. Martens

Artist and patron: the self-portrait of Adam Kraft in the sacrament-house of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg / Johann-Christian Klamt.

Rebels with a cause: the peasant movements of northern Holland in the later Middle Ages / Peter Hoppenbrouwers

To appear or to be / Wim Blockmans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Showing status.

ISBN:

9782503541679

2503541674

Publisher Number:

99984770966

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