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Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Title
- Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe / edited by Jeffrey Denton.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Denton, J. H. (Jeffrey Howard)
- Description
- xii, 206 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This collection of essays examines 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).
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- History
- Note
- "The chapters of this book originated as papers delivered at a series of one-day conferences of the J.K. Hyde Centre for Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Manchester"--Preface (p. ix).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Approaches to pre-industrial social structure / Stephen Rigby -- European and Middle Eastern views of hierarchy and order in the Middle Ages: a comparison / Antony Black -- Dante: order, justice and the society of of orders / Spencer Pearce -- Froissardian perspectives on late-fourteenth-century society / Peter Ainsworth -- Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of power / Paul Binski -- Heraldry and hierarcy: esquires and gentlemen / Maurice Keen - The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush -- Tidy structures and messy practice: ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom -- 'Three orders of inhabitants': social hierarchies in the republic of Venice / Brian Pullan.
- ISBN
- 0802044832
- 9780802044839
- 0802082645
- 9780802082640
- LCCN
- 00550529
- OCLC
- ocm39664611
- 39664611
- SCSB-8967286
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library