Zur sozialen Logik der Tugendprobe

2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-595
Author(s):  
Jan Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Public Control ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Arthurian Romances ◽  
Chivalric Romance ◽  
Test Scenarios ◽  
Broad Overview

Abstract In a broad overview, this article examines the virtue test scenarios (›Tugendproben‹) in Arthurian romances and short narratives of the 13th and 14th centuries as well as in late medieval chivalric romance and Shrovetide plays. While literary research has mainly focused on didactic and comic moments of only two texts so far, the article aims at an underlying social structure formed by public control, rank representation, and concern for the cohesion of Arthurian society. This constellation, I argue, reflects the problem of reconciling two contradictory principles of courtly socialization: agonal competition and an assertion of virtual equality.

‘Unique, Traditional and Charming’. The Shapwick Project, Somerset

1999 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 1-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Aston ◽  
Christopher Gerrard
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Field System

The Shapwick Project, Somerset, began in 1989 as a ten-year, multidisciplinary landscape investigation focused upon the evolution of early and late medieval settlement patterns. This interim paper reviews the work carried out to 1996 and summarizes the results of archaeological fieldwork, standing building recording and documentary study. It is argued that the site of the present village and the medieval field system were planned in the late Saxon period and replaced a scatter of dispersed farmsteads, many of which show continuity from the prehistoric and Roman periods. The role of the medieval and post-medieval landscape is emphasized in reflecting and reinforcing social structure.

Kinship Ties and Young Patricians in Fifteenth-Century Venice

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Chojnacki
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
Social Units ◽  
Kinship Ties

Regimes and families: historians have recently enriched our understanding of the patrician regimes of late-medieval and Renaissance Italy by analyzing relations among their component social units. This essay will contribute to this literature by throwing some light on the social structure and practices of the ruling class of fifteenth-century Venice. For a long time, but with quickening rhythm in the last decade or so, historians of Venice have been charting various currents that ran through the Venetian patriciate. On the whole, though, they have preferred to concentrate on political and economic groupings, less on the family and kinship patterns that fascinate investigators of other cities, notably Florence.

scholarly journals Medieval and early modern ceramics in urban and rural Norway as evidence for trade within the Hanseatic world

AmS-Skrifter ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Volker Demuth
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Broad Overview

In Norway, pottery from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries is always imported and mostly concentrated in the urban centres. The few finds of pottery from this period in a non-urban context can, however, shed light on the spreading of a continental or Hanseatic culture into the periphery of this country. This paper provides a broad overview of archaeological finds of pottery from Bergen and their implications as sources of cultural history. Furthermore, this paper presents various rural and underwater finds of late medieval and early modern pottery in different regions of Norway, along with a discussion of a possible interpretation of the finds as sources for Hanseatic history. 

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