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Social Imagery in Middle Low German: Didactical Literature and Metaphorical Representation (1470-1517)
Contributor(s): Hess (Author), Heß (Author)

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 ISBN: 9004247750     ISBN-13: 9789004247758
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $219.45  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History
- Foreign Language Study | Scandinavian Languages (other)
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 439.4
LCCN: 2013018031
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.55 lbs) 416 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Social imagery during the Late Middle Ages was typically considered to be dominated by the three orders oratores, bellatores, laboratores as the most common way of describing social order, along with body metaphors and comprehensive lists of professions as known from the Danse macabre tradition. None of these actually dominates within the vast genre of lay didactical literature.
This book comprises the first systematic investigation of social imagery from a specific late medieval linguistic context. It methodically catalogues images of the social that were used in a particular cultural/literary sphere, and it separates late medieval efforts at catechization in print from the social and religious ruptures that are conventionally thought to have occurred after 1517. The investigation thus compliments recent scholarship on late medieval vernacular literature in Germany, most of which has concentrated on southern urban centres of production. The author fills a major lacuna in this field by concentrating for the first time on the entire extant corpus of vernacular print production in the northern region dominated by the Hanseatic cities and the Middle Low German dialect.
 
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