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Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
About this book
Just as class is a key term for understanding modern Europe, so hierarchy and order are the key terms for the earlier period. These exceptional essays by some of the leading historians in the field are designed to allow students to get a better grasp on this critical subject. Life in the late medieval and early modern periods was simply organized in a very different way to that of the industrial or post-industrial society we are accustomed to. Each essay tackles a different aspect of this European-wide experience - whether looking at the nobility, the gentry, the commons or the religious castes, the contributors greatly increase our ability to understand the complex and fascinating phenomenon of how society ticks and how it is perceived by its members to tick.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- ORDERS AND HIERARCHIESIN LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Editor's Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to Pre-Industrial Social Structure
- 2 European and Middle Eastern Views of Hierarchy and Order in the Middle Ages: A Comparison
- 3 Dante: Order, Justice and the society of orders
- 4 Froissardian Perspectives on Late-Fourteenth-Century Society
- 5 Hierarchies and Orders in English Royal Images of Power
- 6 Heraldry and Hierarchy: Esquires and Gentlemen
- 7 The Risings of the Commons in England, 1381–1549
- 8 Tidy Structures and Messy practice: ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in ragusa
- 9 'Three Orders of inhabitants': social Hierarchies in the Republic of Venice
- Notes and References
- Bibliographical Guides
- Index