Marcus Meer

Heraldry in Urban Society

Visual Culture and Communication in Late Medieval England and Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the perceptions and functions of heraldry in medieval urban societies by drawing on both English- and German-language sources from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198910275
• ISBN-10: 0198910274
• Artikelnr.: 72598347

Autorenporträt

Marcus Meer is a historian of medieval communication and visual culture, with a comparative focus on the towns and cities of England and the German-speaking lands, c.1300-1530. He is particularly interested in intersections of economic and cultural history, the communicative construction of identities, institutions, and spaces, and antagonisms and convergences of urban, monastic, and noble culture. Meer completed his Ph.D. at Durham University as a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar (in a cotutelle arrangement with Münster University) and taught at Durham, King's College London, and Düsseldorf University. Currently, he is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Notes on Conventions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Selves: Curating Signs of Honour
2: Groups: Creating Corporate Bodies
3: Spaces: Furnishing Stages of Self-Representation
4: Performances: Taking Heraldry to the Streets
5: Conflicts: Negotiating Status and Power
6: Conclusion: Marshalling the Evidence