Abstract
What was the relationship, from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth, between two major facets of early modern European life—social hierarchy, and on the other hand literature and learning (understood in a broad sense as literate cultural activity and production)? These two facets of life were not just contiguous. They also overlapped. This volume fosters Europe-wide consideration of their relationship, rather than providing a systematic survey organized by territory, genre, discourse, or period. First, it examines the acquisition of social literacies and practices, including through the acquisition of languages (especially elite written ones such as Latin, cosmopolitan vernaculars, or technical vocabulary). The emphasis then shifts even more to analysis of representations of social hierarchy produced in the period. Overall, the relationship highlighted in the title is shown to be a complex, two-way one.
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