UID:
almafu_9959235282702883
Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-04-20495-4
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 167
Content:
Social imagery during the Late Middle Ages was typically considered to be dominated by the three orders oratores, bellatores, laboratores as the most common way of describing social order, along with body metaphors and comprehensive lists of professions as known from the Danse macabre tradition. None of these actually dominates within the vast genre of lay didactical literature. This book comprises the first systematic investigation of social imagery from a specific late medieval linguistic context. It methodically catalogues images of the social that were used in a particular cultural/literary sphere, and it separates late medieval efforts at catechization in print from the social and religious ruptures that are conventionally thought to have occurred after 1517. The investigation thus compliments recent scholarship on late medieval vernacular literature in Germany, most of which has concentrated on southern urban centres of production. The author fills a major lacuna in this field by concentrating for the first time on the entire extant corpus of vernacular print production in the northern region dominated by the Hanseatic cities and the Middle Low German dialect.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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I A Space of Its Own: Urban Literature from Cologne to Lübeck /
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II The “real world”: Social Groups in Normative and Legal Sources /
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III Tripartitions and Their Dissolution /
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IV The Nine Choirs of Angels /
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V The Good, the Bad and the Mighty: The Division of Society into Oppositions /
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VI Revues des états /
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VII The Mystical Body of Christ /
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VIII Exotics: Allegories /
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Conclusion: A Science of (unaccomplished) Possibilities /
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Bibliography /
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Appendix: Middle Low German Incunabula and Early Imprints /
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Index /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-24775-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-71159-6
Language:
English
