Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe
By: edited by Jeffrey Denton.
Contributors: Denton, Jeffrey Howard.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Social structure -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.; Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-202) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Jeffrey Denton; value: Approaches to pre-industrial social structure / Stephen Rigby; value: European and Middle Eastern views of hierarchy and order in the Middle Ages : a comparison / Antony Black; value: Dante : order, justice and the society of orders / Spencer Pearce; value: Froissardian perspectives on late-fourteenth-century society / Peter Ainsworth; value: Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of power / Paul Binski; value: Heraldry and hierarchy : esquires and gentlemen / Maurice Keen; value: The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush; value: Tidy structures and messy practice : ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom; value: 'Three orders of inhabitants' : social hierarchies in the Republic of Venice / Brian Pullan.