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Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe
Full title: | Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe |
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ISBN: | 9780268030759 |
ISBN 10: | 0268030758 |
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Publisher: | University Of Notre Dame Press |
Edition: | 1 |
Num. pages: | 168 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2007 |
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Synopsis
The essayists in this volume identify and recover the excitement and dynamism that characterized ceremonial culture in pre-modern Europe. Each turns to key issues: the relation between public and private space, the development of fully-realized dramas and rituals from earlier forms, and the semiotic code that ceremonies manifested to their audiences.Their subjects include the Adventus procession at Chartres; Epiphany and Palm Sunday rituals in medieval Moscow; the staged entry of the future Emperor Charles V into Bruges in 1515; and ceremonies in Italian Renaissance cities interpreted through the lens of Renaissance optical theory. What emerges from each essay is a deeper understanding that any ceremony is, finally, an attempt to close the divide between abstract and literal, ideal and actual.