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The Appearances of Medieval Rituals

Author : Nils Holger Petersen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Appearances of Medieval Rituals written by Nils Holger Petersen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appearances can be deceptive; and medieval ritual practices are in this respect no exception. They perform stability through the codification of repetitive modes of behaviour and simultaneously admit flexibility in their integration of newer forms of representation. They mask the historical contingencies of their own creation and construct alternative narratives of authority and continuity. They do not simply appear; their appearance reflects the mutual interplay of construction and modification. This collection of eleven essays - which chronologically spans the period from the Carolingians to the Catholic Reform movement of the later sixteenth century - explores this double-edged potential in the appearance of medieval ritual practices; and, in this case, chiefly church rituals. It comprises a series of individual studies by scholars of literature, theology, music, and the visual arts. Each study examines a particular moment of change or transformation in ritual practices, illuminating, thereby, processes of ritualization. In this way, the book both provides an impulse to the recent renewal of methodological interest in ritual studies and presents individual contributions to specific scholarly discourses within this broad area.

The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals

Author : Eyolf Østrem
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763502412
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals written by Eyolf Østrem and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Christianity in Western Culture. The present volume was planned on the basis of the first annual international conferences at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, University of Copenhagen: a collection of 15 essays with a wide range of topics both in terms of chronology and subject matter written. The book is a special issue of the journal TRANSfiguration.

Ritual, Images, and Daily Life

Author : Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643901135
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Images, and Daily Life written by Gerhard Jaritz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval images and their content, intentions, and functions regularly followed specific strategies, rituals, and symbols of communication. This is true for religious as well as for secular images. One can recognize these strategies and rituals through analyzing the patterns that occur in the varieties of image construction, image space, image messages, and their perception. This book contains contributions by international specialists whose research interests concentrate on these patterns, the rituals associated with them, and the influences of these phenomena on the daily life of the image audience. (Series: History: Research and Science / Geschichte: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 39)

The King's Body

Author : Sergio Bertelli
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041390
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The King's Body written by Sergio Bertelli and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Rituals of Power

Author : Frans Theuws
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109025
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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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.

Creations

Author : Sven Rune Havsteen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creations written by Sven Rune Havsteen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of the noun 'creation', and the verb 'to create', range from the traditional theological idea of God creating ex nihilo to a more recent sense of the process of artistic conception. This collection of thirteen essays, written by scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and theology, explores the complicated relationship between medieval rituals and theology, and the development of an idea of human artistic creation, which came to the fore in the sixteenth century. The volume concentrates on the period from the Carolingians to the Counter-Reformation but also includes some twentieth-century musicians. Each essay is dedicated to a particular topic concerned with ritual or artistic beginnings, inventions, harmony and disharmony, as well as representations or celebrations of creation. Central themes include the interplay of the ideas of God as creator, of God acting and recreating in medieval liturgy, of God as artist - the deus artifex of the Pythagorean cosmology, which was occasionally referred to as recently as the early nineteenth century -and, finally, of the homo creator, a concept in which man reflected (and eventually replaced) God in his artistic creativity. This book therefore features new, significant, individual contributions from a range of scholarly disciplines, but, taken as a whole, it also constitutes a complex interdisciplinary study, with large-scale historical constructions.

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271042419
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval Concepts of the Past

Author : Gerd Althoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780667
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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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.

The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West

Author : Kiril Petkov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402243
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West written by Kiril Petkov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the social logic of the medieval rituals of reconciliation as showcased by the most potent rite, the kiss of peace. Ritual is presented as a contested ground on which individuals, groups, and political and moral authorities competed for and appropriated political sovereignty. The thesis of the study is that by employing ritual and bodily mnemonics as strategic tools, the forces of order and official morality strove to organize personality structures around a hegemonic value system. Researching three analytical fields—the legal bonds of peace, the emotional economy of ritual, and the building of identity—the book highlights the contents and evolution of ritual reconciliation in diverse cultural contexts in the period between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

The Dangers of Ritual

Author : Philippe Buc
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832497
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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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.

Step by Step. Towards the Sacred. Ritual, Movement, and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages

Author : M. F. Lesák
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788833137018
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Step by Step. Towards the Sacred. Ritual, Movement, and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages written by M. F. Lesák and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe

Author : Krista Kodres
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443864285
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe written by Krista Kodres and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character. The book approaches ‘ritual’ as an action which is discussed under the general umbrella term “performative practice”, and is characterised by a synthesis between the repetitive and the extraordinary that carries an intense symbolic meaning and is emotionally charged. Images, spaces and rituals were closely interconnected in both the religious and the secular spheres, and played a relevant role in the symbolic communication of the time. The essays in this volume are devoted to a complex study of these phenomena in Northern and Central Europe, including regions which, due to linguistic or cultural barriers, have thus far received comparatively little attention in Anglo-American scholarship, including Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltic states.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual

Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : Brepols Pub
ISBN 13 : 9782503541907
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual written by Samuel Kline Cohn and published by Brepols Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen studies brings together scholars of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy to reflect on the multifaceted world of ritual. The scope is expansive, covering four centuries, and the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. Because of older presumptions about the modernity of the Renaissance and hence its supposed aversion to the irrational, scholarship on ritual life in Italian city-states of the Renaissance has lagged behind the historiography on symbols and rituals in monarchies north of the Alps. Only by the 1990s had a wide range of scholars across disciplines become interested in these subjects and approaches for the late medieval and early modern Italian city-state; yet no synthesis or comparative work on rituals and symbols has peered across the regional enclaves of Italy. Through original research in libraries and archives across the Italian peninsula, these essays analyze the richness and importance of ritual at the heart of the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation states, the importance of oaths, ritual space, the power of images, processions, curses, guild ceremonies, saints, and more. The wide geographic and disciplinary range of these essays provides a new platform for viewing the significance of ritual and symbolic power in Renaissance and early modern Italy.

Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games

Author : Gerd Althoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415319
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games written by Gerd Althoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rules and Rituals in Medieval Power Games Gerd Althoff highlights the great impact of unwritten rules (Spielregeln) and rituals in establishing order in prestate societies. He underpins this view with new examples and insights taken from the German perspective and thus offers a model suitable for comparison with other societies.

Book of Beasts

Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065904
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Book of Beasts written by Elizabeth Morrison and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.

Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004514015
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with various examples and aspects of rituals and ceremonies in the late medieval Bohemian lands. The individual contributions explore particular rituals (coronation, wedding, funeral) or environments (cities, nobility, court, church).

Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism

Author : Bryan D. Spinks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351942611
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism written by Bryan D. Spinks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a comprehensive survey of the historical underpinnings of baptismal liturgies and theologies, Bryan Spinks presents an ecumenically and geographically wide-ranging survey and discussion of contemporary baptismal rites, practice and reflection, and sacramental theology. Writing within a clear chronological framework, Bryan Spinks presents two simultaneous volumes on Baptismal Liturgy and Theology. In the first volume, Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism, Bryan Spinks summarizes the understandings of baptism in the New Testament and the development of baptismal reflection and liturgical rites throughout Syrian, Egyptian, Roman and African regions. He focuses particularly on the Homilies of Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodore and Ambrose, the post-nicene rites and commentaries, and the impact of medieval theologies of baptism and Augustinian theology with reference to Western understanding. In the second volume, Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies of Baptism, Spinks traces developments through the Reformation, liturgies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and explores important new ecumenical perspectives on developments of twentiethth-century sacramental discussion.