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The plow, the pen and the sword : images and self-images of medieval people in the Low Countries
Title
The plow, the pen and the sword : images and self-images of medieval people in the Low Countries / Rudi Künzel ; translated by Claire Weeda.
ISBN
1315600897
1317079655
9781315600895
9781317079651
1472442105
9781472442109
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"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.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Künzel, R. E. (Rudi E.), author. Plow, the pen and the sword Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge Research in Medieval Studies ; 12
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
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.
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