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Author : Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe written by Janet Laughland Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832497
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Dangers of Ritual written by Philippe Buc and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced by twentieth-century theories of ritual, often misinterpret medieval documents that ostensibly describe such events, in part because they fail to appreciate the intentions behind them. The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-century representations of Christian martyrdom--allows for the line of development to be peeled back layer by layer. It then turns to an analysis of the formation of the intellectual traditions that contemporary historians have employed to interpret medieval documents. Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century, Buc highlights the continuities yet also the profound transformations between the early medieval understandings and our own, social-scientific models. Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval documents how ''rituals'' might have functioned. Ultimately, he argues, too swift an application of contemporary models to highly complex textual artifacts blinds us to the specificities of early medieval European political culture.
Author : Zbigniew Dalewski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047433378
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Ritual and Politics: Writing the History of a Dynastic Conflict in Medieval Poland written by Zbigniew Dalewski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the dynastic conflict in medieval Poland this book shows how important it is for comprehension of medieval political culture to consider the complex functions of ritual—as a tool shaping political relations both in the realm of practical politics, and on the level of narrative material by which those relations were described.
Author : Frans Theuws
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109025
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Rituals of Power written by Frans Theuws and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 papers by 16 leading archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and the early middle ages break new ground in their discussion, analysis and criticism of present interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death, life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the burial ritual. Others are concerned with the symbolism and ideology of royal power, the formation of a political ideology east of the Rhine from the mid-5th century onwards, and penance rituals in relation to Carolingian episcopal discourse on ecclesiastical power and morale. All deal with the creation of new identities, cultures, norms and values, and their expression in new rituals and ideas from the period of the Great Migrations through the Later Roman Empire down to the society of Beowulf and the later Carolingians.
Author : Geoffrey Koziol
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801423697
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Begging Pardon and Favor written by Geoffrey Koziol and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koziol uncovers the dense meanings of early medieval rituals of supplication in France, illuminating the complex changes in social relations and political power in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Author : Wojtek Jezierski
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503554723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Rituals, Performatives, and Political Order in Northern Europe, C. 650-1350 written by Wojtek Jezierski and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume draws together contributions from history, archaeology, and the history of religion to offer an in-depth examination of political ritual and its performative and transformative potential across Continental Europe and Scandinavia. Covering the period between c. 650 and 1350, this work takes a theoretical, textual, and practical approach to the study of political ritual, and explores the connections between, and changing functions of, key rituals such as assemblies, feasts, and religious confrontations between pagans and Christians. Taking as a central premise the fact that rituals were not only successful political instruments used to create and maintain order, but were also a hazardous game in which intended strategies could fail, the papers within this volume demonstrate that the outcomes of feasts or court meetings were often highly unpredictable, and a friendly atmosphere could quickly change into a violent clash. By emphasising the conflict-ridden and unpredictable nature of ritual acts, the articles add crucial insights into the meanings, (ab)uses, and interpretations of performances in the Middle Ages. In doing so, they demonstrate that rituals, far from being mere representations of power, also constituted an important mechanism through which the political and religious order could be challenged and transformed.
Author : Gerd Althoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521779340
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Family, Friends and Followers written by Gerd Althoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship shaped medieval European political life.
Author : Ristuccia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe written by Ristuccia and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Hok-Ming Cheung
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789622018501
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and China written by Frederick Hok-Ming Cheung and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven, diverse papers, written by ancient and medieval historians, are collected in this volume. These papers were presented at the academic conference "Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and Asia," organized by the Department of History and New Asia College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 1996. Although the papers vary widely in the region and time-span, they are joined by their concern about the relationship between politics and different religions Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and others in ancient and medieval Europe and Asia.
Author : Jeff J. Tyler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004475559
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Lord of the Sacred City: The Episcopus exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany written by Jeff J. Tyler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban histories have emphasized the rise of civic autonomy and proto-democracy. Based on chronicle and archival sources, this volume focuses on German bishops, former lords of the city and fierce opponents of civic freedom. The author investigates how bishops contested exclusion from political, economic, and religious dimensions of civic life (Episcopus exclusus), which culminated in the Protestant Reformation. Four chapters are devoted to episcopal expulsion throughout Germany and the cities of Constance and Augsburg in particular. A remarkable section explores the puzzle of the bishop's civic survival in the later Middle Ages, made possible through episcopal ritual. The emphasis on city, bishop, and ritual will be of special interest to urban historians as well as to scholars of medieval religion, the reformation, church history, church/state relations, and social history.
Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004475834
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan written by Joelle Rollo-Koster and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume transcend Eastern and Western geographical boundaries during a loosely defined medieval and early modern period, ranging from Carolingian Europe to Qing China, and pull rituals out of their geographical contexts. Cultural history binds these essays together. This volume permits readers to compare ritual in religious and secular contexts, in the East and West, and to focus on the purposes of ritual, without being caught up in localism or historical jingoism. The various essays are organized chronologically and thematically; they focus on ritual and gender, law, identity and political legitimization. They cover topics as varied as the spatial appropriation of surfaces and territories, charity, carnival, women's magic, the Jesuits, graffiti, theater, business, medicine, Qing imperial ceremonies, Chinese princesses coming of age, spiritual reconciliation, and the Great Western Schism. Contributors include: Catherine Bell, Virginia A. Cole, Andrée Courtemanche, James L. Hevia, Michael W. Maher, S.J., Véronique Plesch, Marguerite Ragnow, Martha Rampton, Eric C. Rath, Dylan Reid, Kathryn Reyerson, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, and Ann Waltner.
Author : Frederick S. Paxton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801483868
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Christianizing Death written by Frederick S. Paxton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerd Althoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780667
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Medieval Concepts of the Past written by Gerd Althoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.
Author : Anna Kalinowska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350152212
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Power and Ceremony in European History written by Anna Kalinowska and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the medieval age to the modern era. Bringing together political and art historical approaches to the study of power, this book reveals how ceremonies and rituals - far from simply being ostentatious displays of wealth - served as a primary means of communication between different participants in political and courtly life. It explores how ceremonial culture changed over time and in different regions to provide readers with a nuanced comparative understanding of rituals and ceremonies since the middle ages, showing how such performances were integral to the evolution of the state in Europe. This collection of essays is of immense value to both historians and art historians interested in representations of power and the political culture of Europe from 1450 onwards."--
Author : Knut Bergsvik
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781789258073
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Caves and Ritual in Medieval Europe written by Knut Bergsvik and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the use of caves and rock shelters across Europe during the medieval period for a wide range of religious and spiritual purposes by Christian, Muslim, Pictish and non-denominational communities, at both regional and local levels.
Author : Frans Theuws
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004117342
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages written by Frans Theuws and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.
Author : Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516347
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Rulers and Ruling Families in Early Medieval Europe written by Janet L. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, the ideas and practices involved in early medieval royal family politics are the central theme of this collection of papers by Janet L. Nelson. She first examines King Alfred of Wessex (871-99) in the context of Anglo-Saxon conditions and in comparison with his Carolingian contemporaries. When tension and conflict within the royal family are highlighted, she argues that Alfred’s talents and political thought emerge the more impressively. A second group of papers deals with the reign of Charles the Bald (840-77): his patronage of learning and his interest in Spanish martyrs are set in political context, while contemporary historiography is considered as a form of counsel and critique. The third section reflects Nelson’s growing interest in the political importance and gendered roles of royal women. Consecration rites are analysed as ritual expressions and factors in the shaping of the queenship, while two final papers also examine the making and unmaking of Frankish kings and princes.
