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OverviewMedieval Europe is known for its sense of ceremony and drama. Knightings, tournaments, coronations, religious processions, and even private celebrations such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals were occasions for ritual, feasting, and public display. This volume is the first to take a comprehensive look at the many types of city spectacles that entertained the masses and confirmed various messages of power in late medieval Europe. Bringing together leading scholars in history, art history, and literature, this interdisciplinary collection sets new standards for the study of medieval popular culture. Drawing examples from Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, most of them in the fifteenth century, the authors explore the uses of ceremony as statements of political power, as pleas for divine intercession, and as expressions of popular culture. Their essays show us spectacles meant to confirm events such as victories, the signing of a city charter, or the coronation of a king. In other circumstances, the spectacle acts as a battleground where a struggle for the control of the metaphors of power is played out between factions within cities or between cities and kings. Still other ceremonies called upon divine spiritual powers in the hope that their intervention might save the urban inhabitants. We see here a public cognizant of the power of symbols to express its goals and achievements, a society reaching the height of sophistication in its manipulation of popular and elite culture for grand shows. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara Hanawalt , Kathryn ReyersonPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780816623600ISBN 10: 0816623600 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 06 June 1994 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBarbara A. Hanawalt is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, where she is director of the Center for Medieval Studies. Kathryn L. Reyerson is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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