What intellectual and practical tools did medieval peoples
employ in situations of disorder? How did they attempt to maintain
cultural stability? Arguing against the common notion of a static
medieval society organized along kinship and feudal lines, the
contributors to "Ordering Medieval Society"--among them some of
Germany's most influential medieval historians--reveal the diverse
egalitarian and hierarchical forms of organization that medieval
societies used to forge group structure.In the book's first
section, "Conceiving," the authors examine intellectual modes of
ordering society. They study the different patterns of social
classification in the Middle Ages, including the tripartite
division between clergy, knights, and peasants. The medieval system
of "counting piety" through quantifiable modes of penance provided
another way to define social relations. The second part,
"Transforming," focuses on times of disorder when social relations
were reordered at once intellectually and practically. This section
analyzes the transformation of political institutions in
fifth-century Gaul in a shift from a Roman to a medieval ideology.
Charting a much later institutional transformation, the book
provocatively argues that the concept of "the nobility" is a
fourteenth-century invention. The final section, "Stabilizing,"
considers mechanisms for the constitution of egalitarian groups and
highly developed systems for conflict resolution in medieval group
culture.Contributors: Gerd Althoff, Arnold Angenendt, Thomas
Braucks, Rolf Busch, Bernhard Jussen, Thomas Lentes, Hubertus
Lutterbach, Joseph Morsel, Otto Gerhard Oexle.
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