Knightly heroes in the later Middle Ages

Review of Elizabeth Morrison, ed., A knight for the ages. Jacques de Lalaing and the art of chivalry (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018, 192 p., ill., index); and Gero Schreier, Ritterhelden. Rittertum, Autonomie und Fürstendienst in niederadligen Lebenszeugnissen des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, Mittelalter-Forschungen, LVIII (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2019, 393 p., index)

Chapter Measuring urban inequalities. Spatial patterns of service access in sixteenth-century Leiden

This contribution develops a broader understanding of well-being in premodern towns and by using digital methods to map social and economic inequalities, thereby drawing on insights from research on socio-spatial equity from urban studies. The key questions are how socio-economic inequality was reflected in the urban social topography and to what extent these spatial patterns reproduced inequality. Taking sixteenth-century Leiden as a case study, the spatial patterns of economic inequality and social segregation in this town are first examined. Next, the level of location-based inequality is explored by mapping and calculating urban spatial patterns of service accessibility