THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL HIERARCHY: FROM CONGREGATIO FIDELIUM TO SOCIETAS HUMANA Cover Image

THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL HIERARCHY: FROM CONGREGATIO FIDELIUM TO SOCIETAS HUMANA
THE MEDIEVAL SOCIAL HIERARCHY: FROM CONGREGATIO FIDELIUM TO SOCIETAS HUMANA

Author(s): Dana Vasiliu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara

Summary/Abstract: The paper looks into the way in which the medieval society was organized as a vertical disposition of ordines complemented in the thirteenth century by a horizontal hierarchy of estates which accounted for the proliferation of more and more differentiated human types.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 227-236
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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