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

Title
Orders and hierarchies in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe / edited by Jeffrey Denton.
Publication
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors
Denton, J. H. (Jeffrey Howard)
Description
xii, 206 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Problems in focus. Manchester
Uniform Title
Problems in focus. Manchester
Subject
  • To 1599
  • Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
  • Social history > 16th century
  • Social structure > Europe > History
  • Europe > Social conditions > To 1492
  • Europe > Social conditions > 16th century
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-202) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Jeffrey Denton -- 1. Approaches to pre-industrial social structure / Stephen Rigby -- 2. European and Middle Eastern views of hierarchy and order in the middle ages : a comparison / Antony Black -- 3. Dante : order, justice and the society of orders / Spencer Pearce -- 4. Froissardian perspectives on late-fourteenth-century society / Peter Ainsworth -- 5. Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of power / Paul Binski -- 6. Heraldry and hierarchy : esquires and gentlemen / Maurice Keen -- 7. The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush -- 8. Tidy structures and messy practice : ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom -- 9. 'Three orders of inhabitants' : social hierarchies in the republic of Venice / Brian Pullan.
ISBN
  • 033367765X
  • 0333677668 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 42913832
  • SCSB-10677252
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library