Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004204959
Series Statement:
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Ser. v.167
Content:
This book offers the first systematic inventory of late medieval social imagery drawn from the entire surviving corpus of vernacular book production in the Middle Low German region prior to the Reformation.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One A Space of Its Own: Urban Literature from Cologne to Lübeck -- I.1 Language and Cultural Space -- I.2 Print Production in Middle Low German 1470-1517 -- I.3 Different Discourses: Modes of Distinction -- I.4 Names and Metaphors: Establishing Authority in Different Discourses -- Chapter Two The "real world": Social Groups in Normative and Legal Sources -- Chapter Three Tripartitions and Their Dissolution -- III.1 The Master Narrative: Functional and Moral Tripartitions -- III.2 The Terminology of Moral Tripartition -- Chapter Four The Nine Choirs of Angels -- Chapter Five The Good, the Bad and the Mighty: The Division of Society into Oppositions -- V.1 Binomials as Social Imagery -- V.2 The Good and the Evil -- V.3 Man and Woman -- V.4 Husband and Wife -- V.5 Lords and Servants -- V.6 Clergy and Laity -- V.7 Christians and Jews -- V.8 "Ioden unde heyden" -- V.9 Rich and Poor, Man and Woman, Jew and Pagan: The Combination of Binomials -- Chapter Six Revues des états -- Chapter Seven The Mystical Body of Christ -- Chapter Eight Exotics: Allegories -- VIII.1 Technological Imagery and Personification: The Boek van veleme rade -- VIII.2 The Chess Game -- Conclusion: A Science of (unacomplished) Possibilities -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Middle Low German Incunabula and Early Imprints -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9789004247758
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9789004247758
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1249078
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