Orders and hierarchies in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe / edited by Jeffrey Denton.

Orders and hierarchies in late Medieval and Renaissance Europe / edited by Jeffrey Denton.

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

"The chapters of this book originated as papers delivered at a series of one-day conferences of the J.K. Hyde Centre for Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Manchester"--Preface (p. ix).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaches to pre-industrial social structure / Stephen Rigby
European and Middle Eastern views of hierarchy and order in the Middle Ages: a comparison / Antony Black
Dante: order, justice and the society of of orders / Spencer Pearce
Froissardian perspectives on late-fourteenth-century society / Peter Ainsworth
Hierarchies and orders in English royal images of power / Paul Binski
Heraldry and hierarcy: esquires and gentlemen / Maurice Keen - The risings of the commons in England, 1381-1549 / Michael Bush
Tidy structures and messy practice: ideologies of order and the practicalities of office-holding in Ragusa / David Rheubottom
'Three orders of inhabitants': social hierarchies in the republic of Venice / Brian Pullan.

GT130 .O74 1999