The Medieval Establshment 1200-1500
Geoffrey Hindley
Published by Wayland Publishers, London, 1970
Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket
Book Condition: Good condition
Edition: 1970
Designed as an introductory volume to medieval subjects in the Pictorial Sources Series, this title examines one of the keys to understanding the period 1200 - 1500, "authority," It studies the way in which many of the old forms of authority in Church and State were placed under heavy strain, and looks at some of the new forms of authority which developed by their aide in the wake of the twelfth-century Renaissance.
Using an extensive range of illustrative source material, from illuminated manuscripts, woodcuts, tapestries, coinage, woodcarvings, stained glass windows,
woodcarvings, stained glass windows, banners and other material, the author portrays these many changes in chapters on: the medieval Church and its religious, legal, and educational authority; lords and kings and the authority exercised through feudal land-holding and the manorial courts; kingship and its specifically military and judicial authority; and the the new merchant classes--a new and special feature of the period--through a study of the authoritarian guild systems, and the "master-piece" tests by which apprentices and journeymen hoped to join the mercantile establishment.
Geoffrey Hindley shows how these various forms of authority interacted upon each other--for example the effect of kingship and of the Church upon mercantile usages, and shows the effect of each upon every class of society, nobility, priests, merchants, artisans, smallholders, burgesses, society's down-and-out, and those in England and elsewhere who rose in revolt.
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