Ordering Medieval Society
Subtitle: Perspectives on Intellectual and Practical Modes of Shaping Social Relations (The Middle Ages Series)
Contributors: Bernhard Jussen (Editor); Pamela E. Selwyn (Translator)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812235616
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Sociology, Social Studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Medieval; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); Social Stratification; To 1492; History; History - General History; Social conditions; History: World; Europe; Sociology - General; Civilization, Medieval; Medieval, 500-1500; Social history
First sentence: This essay will focus on the counting and accumulation of acts of piety rather than the significance of numbers in the history of medieval piety more generally (that is, number allegorism or gematria).