Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe.Denton, Jeffrey, ed. Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, Press, 1999. xii + 206 pp. illus, bibl, index. $19.95 (pbk), $50 (cl). ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-8020-8264-5 (pbk), 0-8020-4483-2 (cl). These essays were originally delivered as papers at a series of one-day conferences of the J. K. Hyde Centre for Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of nearly £600 million it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives . According to the introduction by Denton, "this is no orthodox textbook" although it is "nonetheless a coursebook coursebook Noun a book that is used as part of an educational course " whose "aim is not to provide a comprehensive survey, but to give a perspective to the subject" of the organization of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. A bibliographical guide to major works and a full index are provided. Essays include: Stephen Rigby, "Approaches to Pre-Industrial Social Structure"; Antony Black, "European and Middle Eastern Views of Hierarchy and Order in the Middle Ages: A Comparison"; Spencer Pearce, "Dante: Order, Justice, and the Society of Orders"; Peter Ainsworth, "Froissardian Perspectives on Late-Fourteenth-Century Society"; Paul Binski, "Hierarchies and Orders in English Royal Images of Power"; Maurice Keen, "Heraldry heraldry, system in which inherited symbols, or devices, called charges are displayed on a shield, or escutcheon, for the purpose of identifying individuals or families. and Hierarchy: Esquires and Gentlemen"; Michael Bush, "The Risings of the Commons in England, 1381-1549"; David Rheubottom, "Tidy Structures and Messy Practice: Ideologies of Order and the Practicalities of Office-Holding in Ragusa"; Brian Pullan, "'Three Orders of Inhabitants': Social Hierarchies in the Republic of Venice The Most Serene Republic of Venice (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, Venetian: Republica de Venesia ." |
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