How did people in the late medieval period perceive and express social status? This volume brings together multi-disciplinary 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.
Author(s): Wim Blockmans, Antheun Janse (eds)
Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe - Volume 2
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 484
City: Turnhout, Belgium
Tags: Культурология;История культуры;История европейской культуры Средневековья;
The Feeling of Being Oneself, p. 1
Wim Blockmans
Showing off One’s Rank in the Middle Ages, p. 19
Raymond van Uytven
Attitudes and Social Positioning in Courtly Romances: Hainault, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, p. 35
Danielle Quéruel
Gifts of Mourning-Cloth at the Brabantine Court in the Fifteenth Century, p. 51
Robert Stein
Self-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, p. 81
Wim Blockmans, Esther Donckers
Marriage and Noble Lifestyle in Holland in the Late Middle Ages, p. 113
Antheun Janse
On the Nature of True Nobility: Views from Dutch Courtiers in the Early Fifteenth Century, p. 139
Jeanne Verbij-Schillings
Rich Men, Poor Men: Social Stratification and Social Representation at the University (13th-16th Centuries), p. 159
Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Around Saint George: Integration and Precedence during the Meetings of the Civic Militia of The Hague, p. 177
Fred J.W. van Kan
Ownership of Graves in Medieval Parish Churches in Holland, p. 197
Koen Goudriaan
Love and Marriage: Fictional Perspectives, p. 227
Annelies van Gijsen
Functions of Fiction: Fighting Spouses around 1500, p. 265
Wim Blockmans, Tess Neijzen
Visual Comments of the Mutability of Social Positions and Values in Netherlandish and German Art of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, p. 277
Hans-Joachim Raupp
The Wearing of Significative Badges, Religious and Secular: The Social Meaning of a Behavioural Pattern, p. 307
Jos Koldeweij
Treacherously Significant Woodcarving: Woodcuts in Dutch-Language (Post-)Incunabula as a Source for Socio-Historical Research, p. 329
Hanneke de Bruin
Jan van Ruusbroec and the Social Position of Late Medieval Mysticism, p. 365
Geert Warnar
The Position of the Artist in the Fifteenth Century: Salaries and Social Mobility, p. 387
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens
Artist and Patron: The Self-Portrait of Adam Kraft in the Sacrament-House of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, p. 415
Johann-Christian Klamt
Rebels with a Cause: The Peasant Movements of Northern Holland in the Later Middle Ages, p. 445
Peter Hoppenbrouwers
To Appear or to Be, p. 483
Wim Blockmans
The Authors, p. 489
