Description: In an interdisciplinary approach, scholars from England, Germany and France representing the fields of history, art history, archaeology and ethnology analyze how rank developed in Medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. In a total of fourteen contributions, the factors that constituted aristocratic rank and how such rank was communica
Brief description: Jorg Peltzer is professor of Vergleichende Landesgeschichte in europaischer Perspektive at the University of Heidelberg. He was the Principal investigator of the research group RANK.