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Author Hess, Cordelia.

Title Social imagery in Middle Low German : didactical literature and metaphorical representation (1470-1517) / by Cordelia Hess.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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Series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions ; v. 167
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 167.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book offers the first systematic inventory of late medieval social imagery drawn from the entire surviving corpus of vernacular book production in the Middle Low German region prior to the Reformation.
Contents A space of its own : urban literature from Cologne to Lübeck -- The "real world" : social groups in normative and legal sources -- Tripartitions and their dissolution -- The nine choirs of angels -- The good, the bad and the mighty : the division of society into oppositions -- Revues des états -- The mystical body of Christ -- Exotics : allegories -- Conclusion : a science of (unaccomplished) possibilities.
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Subject Low German language -- To 1500 -- Social aspects.
Low German language.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Social aspects.
Didactic literature, German -- History and criticism.
Didactic literature, German.
Metaphor in literature.
Metaphor in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1470-1517
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Hess, Cordelia. Social Imagery in Middle Low German. Brill 2013 1299711596
ISBN 9789004204959 (electronic book)
9004204954 (electronic book)
1299711596 (electronic book)
9781299711594 (electronic book)
9789004247758 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004247750 (hardback ; acid-free paper)

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