Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England - Brossura

Horrox, Rosemary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052158986X ISBN 13: 9780521589864

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This collection of essays takes a fresh and invigorating look at late-medieval English society by focusing not on how people lived but on how they saw the world and their place in it. Alongside contributions on how different social groups saw themselves and were seen by others are more general discussions of key aspects of fifteenth-century life: attitudes to the rule of law, to the power of the ruler, to education, to honour and service, and finally to death.

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'... deserves a place on every library shelf ... it is consistently brief, clear, jargon-free and hence accessible both to the general reader and to the specialist ... All contributors ... parade an impressive and sometimes staggering range, which cumulatively give the book a freshness, originality and unexpectedness that is very inviting.' The Ricardian

'In this collective effort to 'get inside the skin' of fifteenth-century attitudes, Rosemary Horrox and her collaborators have demonstrated, superbly, how worthwhile an objective empathy can prove under the discipline of scholarship.' Maurice Keen, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

'... Rosemary Horrox and her collaborators have demonstrated, superbly, how worthwhile an objective empathy can prove under the discipline of scholarship.' Maurice Keen, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Descrizione del libro

This collection of essays takes a fresh and invigorating look at late-medieval English society by focusing not on how people lived but on how they saw the world and their place in it.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052158986X
• ISBN 13: 9780521589864
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 260