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Just as class is a key term for understanding modern Europe, so hierarchy and order are the key terms for the earlier period. These exceptional essays by some of the leading historians in the field are designed to allow students to get a better grasp on this critical subject. Life in the late medieval and early modern periods was simply organized in a very different way to that of the industrial or post-industrial society we are accustomed to. Each essay tackles a different aspect of this European-wide experience - whether looking at the nobility, the gentry, the commons or the religious castes, the contributors greatly increase our ability to understand the complex and fascinating phenomenon of how society ticks and how it is perceived by its members to tick.
JEFFREY DENTON is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Manchester.
Editor's PrefaceIntroduction; J.DentonApproaches to Pre-industrial Social Structure; S.RigbyEuropean and Middle Eastern Views of Order and Hierarchy in the Middle Ages: A Comparison; A.BlackDante: Order, Justice and the Society of Orders; S.PearceFroissardian Perspectives on Late Fourteenth-Century Society; P.AinsworthHierarchies and Orders in English Royal Images of Power; P.BinskiHeraldry and Hierarchy: Esquires and Gentlemen; M.KeenThe Risings of the Commons in England, 1381-1549; M.BushTidy Structures and Messy Practice: Ideologies of Order and the Practicalities of Office-holding in Ragusa; D.Rheubottom'Three Orders of Inhabitants': Social Hierarchies in the Republic of Venice; B.PullanNotesBibliographical GuidesNotes on ContributorsIndex.
'This is an important subject, and the proposal is animated by a most impressive editorial vision which combines an ambitious overall vision with close attention to the nuts and bolts of detail.' - Dr Richard Mackenney, University of Edinburgh
