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
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
