City and Spectacle in Medieval EuropeBarbara Hanawalt, Kathryn Reyerson U of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 331 pages Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction. |
Table des matières
Configurations of the Community in Late Medieval | 3 |
Civic Liturgies and Urban Records in Northern France | 34 |
Philip the Fairs Celebration of the Knighting | 56 |
Icons Altarpieces and Civic Ritual in Siena Cathedral | 89 |
The Liturgy of the Counts Advent in Bruges from | 137 |
The Spectacle of Suffering in Spanish Streets | 153 |
The London Midsummer Watch | 171 |
Unity or Division? The Social Meaning of Guild Ceremony | 189 |
Ceremonies and Constitutional | 208 |
The Power of Ceremonies | 235 |
Urban | 271 |
Elite and Popular Culture in Late FifteenthCentury | 296 |
Contributors | 319 |
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