Title The Plow, the Pen and the Sword : Images and Self-Images of Medieval People in the Low Countries / Rudi Künzel

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies ; 12 Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Group cultures; 1 The clergy: self-image and ideology; 2 Image and self-image of the aristocracy; 3 Church views on peasants: cultural exchange between the Church and the peasantry; 4 Images of trade, merchants, trade settlements and cities; Part II Exemplary studies; 5 Oral and written traditions in the Versus de Unibove; 6 Rituals of humiliation and triumph: Stavelot, 1065-1071; 7 Early manifestations of urban mentalities: Sint-Truiden, Trier and Cambrai, ca. 1050-1150 8 A tournament of the dead: religious diversity in an exemplum by Caesarius of HeisterbachConclusion; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index 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 Subject Social groups -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Self-perception -- Social aspects -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Group identity -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Communication -- Social aspects -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Ritual -- Social aspects -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Sociology, Urban -- Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500 Death -- Benelux countries -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500 Communication -- Social aspects Death -- Religious aspects Group identity Self-perception -- Social aspects Social conditions Social groups Sociology, Urban SUBJECT Benelux countries -- Social conditions Benelux countries -- Social conditions -- Case studies Benelux countries -- Religious life and customs Subject Benelux countries Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315600895 1315600897

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