Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England
Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they work, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence. Employing a highly interdisciplinar…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4039-6689-6
- EAN: 9781403966896
- Produktnummer: 1482162
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.2 cm 467 g
- Auflage: 2005
- Gewicht: 467
Über den Autor
DAVID GARY SHAW is Chairman and Professor of History at Wesleyan University, USA. His previous publications include The Creation a Community (Oxford, 1993) and The Return of Science, edited with Philip Pomper (Lanham, Md., 2002). He is Associate Editor of History and Theory at Wesleyan University, USA.
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