Social imagery in Middle Low German : : didactical literature and metaphorical representation (1470-1517) / / Cordelia Hess.

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. Non...

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Superior document:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 167
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 167.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Cordelia Heß
  • Introduction / Cordelia Heß
  • I A Space of Its Own: Urban Literature from Cologne to Lübeck / Cordelia Heß
  • II The “real world”: Social Groups in Normative and Legal Sources / Cordelia Heß
  • III Tripartitions and Their Dissolution / Cordelia Heß
  • IV The Nine Choirs of Angels / Cordelia Heß
  • V The Good, the Bad and the Mighty: The Division of Society into Oppositions / Cordelia Heß
  • VI Revues des états / Cordelia Heß
  • VII The Mystical Body of Christ / Cordelia Heß
  • VIII Exotics: Allegories / Cordelia Heß
  • Conclusion: A Science of (unaccomplished) Possibilities / Cordelia Heß
  • Bibliography / Cordelia Heß
  • Appendix: Middle Low German Incunabula and Early Imprints / Cordelia Heß
  • Index / Cordelia Heß.