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Necessary conjunctions : the social self in medieval England
- Title
- Necessary conjunctions : the social self in medieval England / David Gary Shaw.
- Author
- Shaw, David Gary.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- xii, 292 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they wear, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence.
- Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The new Middle Ages
- Uniform Title
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- To 1500
- Geschichte 1375-1520
- Community life > England > History > To 1500
- Group identity > England > History > To 1500
- Communities > England > History > To 1500
- Communities
- Community life
- Group identity
- Manners and customs
- Social conditions
- Stadtbevölkerung
- Soziale Identität
- Stadt
- Sozialstruktur
- England > Social life and customs > 1066-1485
- England > Social conditions > 1066-1485
- England
- Wells
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-279) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the self in social history -- Master values of town life -- E pluribus unum: peer pressures -- The marriage of self and structure -- Friends, enemies patrons -- Battles at the boundary of the self -- Self-possession -- A world of individuals -- Conclusion: the shape of the social self.
- ISBN
- 1403966893
- 9781403966896
- 9781349733576
- 1349733571
- 9781137067913
- 1137067918
- LCCN
- 2004059352
- OCLC
- ocm56809535
- 56809535
- SCSB-14031677
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library