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Rites and ceremonies --- Social history --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire sociale --- History --- Histoire --- Ghent (Belgium) --- Belgium --- Gand (Belgique) --- Belgique --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Medieval rites and ceremonies --- Civilization, Medieval --- Gand (Belgium) --- Gent (Belgium) --- Gante (Belgium) --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1200-1499 --- Ghent

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Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters-petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble, Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources' internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble takes the reader out onto the streets and into the taverns, homes, and workplaces of the Burgundian territories, charting the most pressing social concerns of the day: everything from family disputes and vendettas to marital infidelity and property conflicts-and, more generally, the problems of public violence, abduction and rape, and the role of honor and revenge in adjudicating disputes. Arnade and Prevenier examine why the right to pardon was often enacted by the Burgundian dukes and how it came to compete with more traditional legal means of resolving disputes. In addition, they consider the pardon letter as a historical source, highlighting the limitations and pitfalls of relying on documents that are, by their very nature, narratives shaped by the petitioner to seek a favored outcome. The book also includes a detailed case study of a female actress turned prostitute.An example of microhistory at its best, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble will challenge scholars while being accessible to students in courses on medieval and early modern Europe or on historiography.

History of Europe --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Sociological jurisprudence --- Pardon --- Crime --- Sociologie juridique --- Grâce --- Criminalité --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Netherlands --- Benelux countries --- Pays-Bas --- Benelux --- Sources. --- Grâce --- Criminalité

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This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Bringing together scholars from different backgrounds, the volume aims to stimulate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about representations in art, literature, ritual, and other media. Within the Dutch Republic, different state actors – the city, the provincial states, the States General, the stadtholders, and individual power-holders – vied for the supremacy of power. A vital aspect of this persistent struggle was its representative dimension. In making representative claims about their place in the balance of power, these institutions all faced the challenge of developing a republican language that was both distinctive enough and universally understood. In the cultural repertoires available to political figures, artists, and intellectuals, republican models contended with monarchical ones. In visual and literary depictions, public ritual, and diplomatic encounters alike, the temptation to stand up to the grandeur of powerful European monarchies by borrowing from their representative traditions was not always easy to resist.

Iconography --- History of the Netherlands --- power --- kunst en politiek --- anno 1600-1699 --- Représentations sociales --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Entrées (cérémonies) --- Rois et souverains --- Portraits --- Monarchy in art --- Monarchy --- Arts, Dutch --- History --- Dutch arts --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- monarchies --- iconography