ISBN:
9781472442109
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 343 Seiten
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge research in medieval studies 12
Series Statement:
Routledge research in medieval studies
Uniform Title:
Beelden en zelfbeelden van middeleeuwse mensen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Künzel, R. E. (Rudi E.), author Plow, the pen and the sword
DDC:
306.09492
Keywords:
Social groups History To 1500
;
Self-perception Social aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Group identity History To 1500
;
Communication Social aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Ritual Social aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Sociology, Urban History To 1500
;
Death Religious aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Benelux countries Case studies Social conditions
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Benelux countries Social conditions
;
Benelux countries Religious life and customs
;
Niederlande
;
Selbstbild
;
Sozialgeschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
"This book compares the cultures of the different social groups living in the Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Clergy, nobility, peasants and townsmen greatly varied in their attitudes to labor, property, violence, and the handling and showing of emotions. Künzel explores how these social groups looked at themselves as a group, and how they looked at the other groups. Image and self-image could differ radically. The results of this research are specified and tested in four case studies on the interaction between group cultures, focusing respectively on the influence of oral and written traditions on a literary work, rituals as a means of conflict management in weakly centralized societies, stories as an expression of an urban group mentality, and beliefs on death and the afterlife"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Part 1. Group cultures -- The clergy : self-image and ideology -- Image and self-image of the aristocracy -- Church views on peasants : cultural exchange between the Church and the peasantry -- Images of trade, merchants, trade settlements and cities -- Part 2. Exemplary studies -- Oral and written traditions in the Versus de Unibove -- Rituals of humiliation and triumph : Stavelot, 1065-1071 -- Early manifestations of urban mentalities : Sint-Truiden, Trier and Cambrai, ca. 1050-1150 -- A tournament of the dead : religious diversity in an exemplum by Caesarius of Heisterbach -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Durchgesehene, aktualisierte und übersetzte Ausgabe der Dissertation "Beelden en zelfbeelden van middeleeuwse mensen" (1997)
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