City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe

City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe
ISBN-10
0816623597
ISBN-13
9780816623594
Category
Social Science
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Authors
Kathryn Reyerson, Barbara Hanawalt

Description

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.

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