Showing Status: Representation of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages [Hardcover]

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.This publication brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives on representations of social difference in the Low Countries during a time of dynamic social change.The articles comprise: Preface Wim Blockmans, The Feeling of Being Oneself Part 1: Positioning by milieu Raymond van Uytven, Showing off One's Rank in the Middle Ages
Danielle Queruel, Attitudes and Social Positioning in Courtly Romances: Hainault, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Robert Stein, Gifts of Mourning-Cloth at the Brabantine Court in the Fifteenth Century
Wim Blockmans and Esther Donckers, Self-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
Antheun Janse, Marriage and Noble Lifestyle in Holland in the Late Middle Ages
Jeanne Verbij-Schillings, On the Nature of True Nobility. Views from Dutch Courtiers in the Early Fifteenth Century
Hilde de Ridder-Symons, Rich Men, Poor Men: Social Stratification at the University (13th-16th Centuries)
Fred J.W. van Kan, Around Saint George: Integration and Precedence during the Meetings of the Civic Militia of The Hague
Koen Goudriaan, Ownership of Graves in Medieval Parish Churches in Holland Part 2: Visions and problems Annelies van Gijsen, Love and Marriage. Fictional Perspectives
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