scholarly journals Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürg Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Government Role ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

The article considers the importance of military service in social advancement, here understood as filling the role of “prince” in feudal law and thus participating in the government of an estate, in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. In the context of a city burgher or a petty noble or knight advancing into a government role, did honour require that the individual have experience in fighting – in war, military organisation and leadership? How did mercenaries figure? What role, if any, did Fechtmeister, Fechtbücher, Fechtschulen or Kriegsbücher play?

scholarly journals Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-181
Author(s):  
Jürg Gassmann
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Government Role ◽  
Social Advancement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual

Abstract The article considers the importance of military service in social advancement, here understood as filling the role of “prince” in feudal law and thus participating in the government of an estate, in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. In the context of a city burgher or a petty noble or knight advancing into a government role, did honour require that the individual have experience in fighting – in war, military organisation and leadership? How did mercenaries figure? What role, if any, did Fechtmeister, Fechtbücher, Fechtschulen or Kriegsbücher play?

Architekturzeichnung und ihre Rolle beim ­Entwurf komplexer Werksteinkonstruktionen in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

Architectura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
David Wendland
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Architectural Drawings ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Existing Structure

AbstractAlthough the affinity of medieval architectural drawings to the graphic procedures of setting-out has been extensively discussed, the role of scale drawings in the design practice of the late Middle-Ages and the Early Modern period is still subject of debate. This regards also the drawings of complex late Gothic rib vaults. An opportunity for better understanding their precise use and function within the design and planning of complex stone structures is given by a case study on the vault in St. Catherine’s chapel in Strasbourg Cathedral, where an original drawing of the plan can be compared with the existing structure as it was actually built. The vault with looping ribs was completed in 1547. The comparative study of the drawing and the building is based on the previous research on the procedures of stone-planning in late Gothic vaults, and comprises also building archaeology, surveys, and geometric analyses of the vault.

scholarly journals Cerâmicas de Vila Franca de Xira nos séculos XV e XVI

2020 ◽  
pp. 1865-1878
Author(s):  
Eva Pires
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Materials Analysis ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Town

The archaeological intervention in the Ateneu Artístico Vilafranquense site in 2007, in the context of preventive archaeology, revealed data about the urban center of Vila Franca de Xira during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age. The study of the entire set of materials from this intervention, made up of ceramics, faunal remains, glass, metals and lithic materials, allowed us to infer the domestic nature of this context comprised of the town population’s consumption remains. We present the final results of the ceramic materials analysis, which correspond to a total of 492 identifiable objects (NMI), mainly related to the 15th and 16th centuries.

scholarly journals The Oath of a New Burgess from the Comparison Point of View

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Hana Komárková
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Context ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Individual

The Oath of a New Burgess from the Comparison Point of ViewThe role of immigration in the life of the late medieval and early modern town was important. A key part of this process (and best captured in the sources of urban origin) was the integration of a new burgher into existing urban social and economic structures. Like most of the power-economic relations of this time, the individual-burgher relationship to the group was based on mutual guarantees confirmed by an oath taken by a newly-accepted member. The essay will focus on the relevance and usability of early modern and modern codifications of urban oaths to explore the development of urban structures in the late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. It will also focus on comparing the content of the oath of the new burgher both in the general context of the oaths used in the urban environment and in the context of the specific development of the urban community in the area under consideration (Silesian and north Moravian towns based on Magdeburg rights) compared to the situation in the Western part of Holy Roman Empire.

scholarly journals Percorsi familiari e preminenza a Nola alla fine del Medioevo. Il caso degli Albertini di Cimitile

2021 ◽  
pp. 465-514
Author(s):  
Luigi Tufano
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Important Family ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Period

Through the parchments of the aristocratic archive, the essay reconstructs the events and paths of construction and consolidation of the political and social role of the Albertini of Cimitile, an important family of the Nolan élite, of legal professionals and with consolidated relations with the Orsini count dynasty, in the period between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.

scholarly journals Le calamità ambientali nel tardo medioevo europeo: realtà, percezioni, reazioni

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
European Society ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Points Of View

For some time historiography has set itself the objective of studying the ways in which European society in the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Age has related to environmental disasters, addressing the perceptions and the reactions, the strategies implemented by the governments, and the repercussions on the religious mentality. In this way it has identified a sphere of investigation that is an authentic multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary workshop, engaging historians of institutions, culture and mentality. At the conference held in San Miniato, Italian and European historians compared notes on this subject, addressing it from different points of view and taking into consideration different environmental contexts (the cities and the rivers, the mountain, the sea, Italy, France, Holland, etc.) and different viewpoints (those of the governments, the lay 'intellectuals', the men of religion, etc.).

Masochism and the female gaze

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Yamamoto-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thomas Nashe ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Female Gaze

In this chapter, Yamamoto-Wilson examines the role of the Other’s gaze in early modern masochistic fantasy, starting with reader responses to martyrologies (particularly Foxe), hagiography and bloody histories, and moving on to erotic and proto-pornographic narratives (among which Nicholas Chorier’s Satyra Sotadica is preeminent) and narratives of sexual insecurity. Georges Duby, Lisa Silverman and others have argued that, in the late Middle Ages, dolor was the property of women, and Melissa Sanchez demonstrates how, in the early modern period, the political subject was discursively feminized through injunctions to suffer. The gaze of the Other both emasculates and humiliates, but perseverance in suffering (whether in the martyr’s sacrifice or the masochist’s fantasy) leads, paradoxically, to triumph. While the Other is sometimes depicted as male, there is an emergent sense of a transgressive female gaze, reflected in the writings of Thomas Nashe, Samuel Butler, Mary Wroth and others. This chapter focuses on the male anxiety generated by the gaze of a female Other in the literary discourse of early modern England.

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