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    Wealth and Status in the Middle Ages in the southern Low Countries —z 143 209 24 283 39 365 393 +e 85 505 su 542 os CONTENT PREFACE | Fernand Huts Parti ‘WEALTH AND PRosPERITY Sill but trong: looking for the roots of sustainable economic success in medieval Flanders | Tim Svensand Peter Stat. ParT2 INDIVIDUALITY AND DISTINCTION The many faces of the medieval burgher in the Southern Netherlands | Jan Dumolyn Merchants and money changers [Jeroen Puttevils Artisans and craft guilds in the medieval city | Jelle Haemers Textile entrepreneurs and textile workers in che medieval city| Jeroen Deploige and Peter Stabel ‘Women in the medieval society | Andrea Bardyn Clerics and monasties | Brigitte Mejns The construction of power: strategies of the prince and the nobility | Mario Damen and Dries Tys The status and sense ofidentity of farmers and villagers | Kristof Dombrecht and Eline Vanonacker Parr3 PRESTIGE AND INGENUITY Haute couture and préti-porter. ‘The art market in the Late Middle Ages | Katbarina Van Cateren ‘And then there was light: on the artist in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and on the emergence of genius Elisabeth Bracke EpiLocur Golden Times? | Veronique Lambert BrsuioGRaPHy ABOUT THE AUTHORS hhe Southern Netherlands in medieval times wasa region of towns ‘and city dwellers, as has already become more than apparent from the preced- ing chapters in this book. That urban landscape was characterized by economic activity, technological innovation, and major cultural achievements, as well as social polarization and finely honed political oppositions. Burghership played a central role in medieval socicty in these regions. But what does the word ‘burgher ‘mean exactly? Can we spealcin terms of the burghers, as fthey represented a homogeneous group? Are we discussing a specific social class, such as the one we immediately think of when referring to today’s ordinary middle-class citizens, orto choosea more sensicive term-the bourgeoisie’? Was a burgher nothing more than a resident ofthe city, ‘townsman’, or was a specific social identicy involved? Ts that possibly how city dwellers defined their selFimage by aligning, swith a specific group? &@ Inorderto find sensible answers to these questions, we must frst explore the many historical connotations associated with the concepts of burgher, city

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