{"product_id":"ontologies-of-titles-simon-van-rekum-9789004746190","title":"Ontologies of Titles: Office-Person Relationships and Social Taxonomies in 13th-Century Norway and Iceland","description":"More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. \u003ci\u003eOntologies of Titles\u003c\/i\u003e questions modern assumptions that guide how historians frame social titles; it shows that Norse titles often were indifferent to boundaries between individual and common, person and office.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book explores how titles were shaped by political practice, textual production, and the conflicting aprioris governing the categorization of beings. It demonstrates how social titles alternated between signaling inherent personal qualities and abstract categories, thus revealing how language operated across multiple ontological registers in structuring social order.\u003cbr\u003e (The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Van Rekum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004746196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004746190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.63d","brand":"Simon Van Rekum","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742997721343,"sku":"9789004746190","price":136.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ontologies-of-titles-simon-van-rekum-9789004746190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}