Civic Ritual and Drama: 2 (Ludus, 2) - Softcover

Book 8 of 17: Ludus
 
9789042001206: Civic Ritual and Drama: 2 (Ludus, 2)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9042001208 ISBN 13: 9789042001206
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1997

Synopsis

Late medieval and renaissance cities, though powerful communities jealous of their own jurisdiction, were constantly negotiating their relationships with other secular and religious authorities. The seven essays in this collection treat various aspects of civic display and pageantry during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The overwhelming sense one receives is that the solemne pomps were essentially about power ― how to get it, display it, share it and retain it. Each paper demonstrates how, through ceremony and symbol, municipalities sought to fashion their own corporate self-image in order to establish the limits of their authority in relationship to the countervailing powers sur-rounding them. The essays are concerned with the period before the ever widening impact of the Reformation and the intellectual and political revolutions it spawned had reached the level of civic pageantry. In the varied rituals considered here we can see reflected the highly sophisticated minds of their creators using the symbolic landscape of their religious and cultural past in important acts of corporate self-fashioning.

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Product Description

JOHNSTON, A. F. / W. HUESKEN, EDS. CIVIC RITUAL AND DRAMA. AMSTERDAM, 1997, 201 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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Publisher
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9042001208
ISBN 13 
9789042001206
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208
Editor
Johnston Alexandra F., Hüsken Wim