Necessary Conjunctions is an original study of how regular medieval people created their public social identities. Focusing especially on the world of English townspeople in the later Middle Ages, the book explores the social self, the public face of the individual. It gives special attention to how prevalent norms of honor, fidelity and hierarchy guided and were manipulated by medieval citizens. With variable success, medieval men and women defined themselves and each other by the clothes they work, the goods they cherished, as well as by their alliances and enemies, their sharp tongues and petty violence. Employing a highly interdisciplinary methodology and an original theory makes it possible to see how personal agency and identity developed within the framework of later medieval power structures.
- ISBN10 1349733571
- ISBN13 9781349733576
- Publish Date 14 January 2014 (first published 4 March 2005)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 July 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 2005 ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 292
- Language English