Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe

Orders and hierarchies in late medieval and Renaissance Europe [Texte imprimé] / edited by Jeffrey Denton - Basingstoke ; London : Macmillan Press, 1999 - 1 vol. (XII-206 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 22 cm - Problems in focus : Manchester . - Problems in focus : Manchester .

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Introduction / Jeffrey Denton -- Approaches to pre-industrial social structure / Stephen Rigby -- European and Middle Eastern views of hierarchy and order in the Middle Ages : a comparison / Antony Black -- Dante : order, justice and the society of orders / Spencer Pearce -- Froissardian perspectives on late-fourteenth-century society / Peter Ainsworth -- Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of power / Paul Binski -- Heraldry and hierarchy : esquires and gentlemen / Maurice Keen -- The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush -- Tidy structures and messy practice : ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom -- 'Three orders of inhabitants' : social hierarchies in the Republic of Venice / Brian Pullan

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