Willem Pieter Blockmans

age of discretion

Introduction to medieval Europe, 300-1550

Wim Blockmans

Gedetailleerde beschrijving van het politieke systeem en de persoonlijke tekortkomingen van Karel V die meer gebied, rijkdom en macht bezat dan enig ander Europees heerser, maar die faalde in zijn streven naar eenheid en vrede.

de utopie van het keizerschap

Keizer Karel V, 1500-1558

A. Janse

PrefaceThe Feeling of Being OneselfWim BlockmansPart I. Positioning by milieuShowing off One's Rank in the Middle AgesRaymond Van UytvenAttitudes and Social Positioning in Courtly Romances: Hainault, Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesDanielle QuéruelGifts of Mourning-Cloth at the Brabantine Court in the Fifteenth CenturyRobert SteinSelf-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth CenturiesWim Blockmans and Esther DonckersMarriage and Noble Lifestyle in Holland in the Late Middle Ages Antheun JanseOn the Nature of True Nobility: views from Dutch Courtiers in the Early Fifteenth CenturyJeanne-Verbij SchillingsRich Men, Poor Men : Social stratification and Social representation at the University (13th-16th Centuries)Hilde De Ridder-SymoensAround Saint George: Integration and Precedence during the Meetings of the Civic Militia of the HagueFred J.W. Van KanOwnership of Graves in Medieval Parish Churches in HollandKoen GoudriaanPart II Visions and ProblemsLove and Marriage: Fictional PerspectivesAnnelies Van GijsenFunctions of Fiction: Fighting Spouses around 1500Wim Blockmans and Tess NeijzenVisual Comments of the Mutability of Social Positions and Values in Netherlandish and German Art of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesHans-Joachim RauppThe Wearing of Significative Badges, Religious and Secular: The Social Meaning of a Behavioural Pattern Jos KoldeweijTreacherously Significant Woodcarving: Woodcuts in Dutch Language (Post)Incunabula as a source for Socio-Historical ResearchHanneke De BruinPart III. Positioning by social functionJan van Ruusbroec and the Social Position of Late Medieval Mysticism Geert WarnarThe Position of the Artist in the Fifteenth Century: Salaries and Social MobilityMaximiliaan P.J. MartensArtist and Patron: The Self-Portrait of Adam Kraft in the Sacrament-House of St. Lorenz in NurembergJohann-Christian KlamtRebels with a Cause : The Peasant Movements of Northern Holland in the Later Middle AgesPeter HoppenbrouwersTo appear or to BeWim BlockmansThe Authors.

Representation of Social Positions in the Late Middle Ages

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Walter Prevenier

An Blockmans-Delva

The Burgundian Netherlands

As we stand on the brink of a new millennium, A History of Power in Europe offers a masterful and original analysis of the various configurations of power and their significance in European history over the last 1,000 years, and in so doing provides a brilliant account of Western thought and politics.Beginning with the time when nation-states first appeared in Europe, around A.D. 1000, through the continent's many battles, wars, annexations, and revolutions, to the large-scale upheavals of our century, this broad, ambitious, and erudite study offers a radical new perspective on the exercise of power.Wim Blockmans examines the use of power in European society through analysis of three main areas: politics, economics, and culture. Europe's independent and mutually competitive states were a hothouse of new ideas, in which a uniquely energetic society developed.More than 350 illustrations -- paintings, engravings, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, maps, coins, posters, even chess pieces -- by artists as diverse as Giorgio Vasari, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Paul Gauguin brilliantly illuminate the author's arguments.

A History of Power in Europe

P. C. M. Hoppenbrouwers

Clearly written in a lively style by two prominent authors in the field, this translation of a comprehensive textbook is an excellent survey history of the Middle Ages.

Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550

They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, "the Promised Lands." In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier trace the relations between the cultural and economic developments of the Low Countries and the political evolution of the region under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy. Combining political, diplomatic, administrative, economic, social, artistic, and cultural history, Blockmans and Prevenier have synthesized the most recent research on the subject--much of it their own--to produce the most accessible and authoritative book in English on the subject. This is an updated and revised translation of a classic work first published in 1988, now expanded and reoriented toward a broader international readership.

The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530

The Promised Lands

Till-Holger Borchert

Johan Oosterman

Anne van Oosterwijk

Nele Gabriels

In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.

Willem Pieter Blockmans

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