CiNii 図書 - City and spectacle in medieval Europe

Medieval 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 takes 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 aims to set new standards for the study of medieval popular culture. Drawing examples from Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, most of them in the 15th 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, the coronation of a king. In other circumstances, the spectacle acted 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. Yet 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.

Part 1 Ritual significance in municipal and royal politics: Configurations of the community in late medieval spectacles - Paris and London during the dual monarchy, Lawrence Bryant
Civic liturgies and urban records in northern France 12th-14th centuries, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
La grant fest - Philip the Fair's celebration of the knighting of his sons in Paris at Pentecost of 1313, Elizabeth A.R. Brown and Nancy Freeman Regalado. Part 2 Public and private religious expression in the urban context: Icons, altarpieces, and civic ritual in Siena Cathedral 1200-1530, Bram Kempers
The liturgy of the Count's advent in Bruges from Galbert to Van Eyck, James Murray
The spectacle of suffering in Spanish streets, Maureen Flynn. Part 3 Harmony and dissonance in the urban ceremonial community: Ceremony and oligarchy - the London Midsummer watch, Sheila Lindenbaum
Social separateness and urban ceremony - the guild of St George, Benjamin McRee
The politics of welcome - ceremonies and constitutional development in later medieval English towns, Lorraine Attreed. Part 4 The political overtones of public entertainment: The Duke and his towns - The power of ceremonies, feasts, and public amusement in the Duchy of Guelders (east Netherlands) in the 14th and 15th centuries, Gerard Nijsten
In the pit of the Burgundian Theatre state - urban traditions and princely ambitions in Ghent, 1360-1420, David Nicholas. (part contents).

巻冊次: : pbk ISBN 9780816623600

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Medieval 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 takes 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 aims to set new standards for the study of medieval popular culture. Drawing examples from Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, most of them in the 15th 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, the coronation of a king. In other circumstances, the spectacle acted 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. Yet 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.

Part 1 Ritual significance in municipal and royal politics: Configurations of the community in late medieval spectacles - Paris and London during the dual monarchy, Lawrence Bryant
Civic liturgies and urban records in northern France 12th-14th centuries, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
La grant fest - Philip the Fair's celebration of the knighting of his sons in Paris at Pentecost of 1313, Elizabeth A.R. Brown and Nancy Freeman Regalado. Part 2 Public and private religious expression in the urban context: Icons, altarpieces, and civic ritual in Siena Cathedral 1200-1530, Bram Kempers
The liturgy of the Count's advent in Bruges from Galbert to Van Eyck, James Murray
The spectacle of suffering in Spanish streets, Maureen Flynn. Part 3 Harmony and dissonance in the urban ceremonial community: Ceremony and oligarchy - the London Midsummer watch, Sheila Lindenbaum
Social separateness and urban ceremony - the guild of St George, Benjamin McRee
The politics of welcome - ceremonies and constitutional development in later medieval English towns, Lorraine Attreed. Part 4 The political overtones of public entertainment: The Duke and his towns - The power of ceremonies, feasts, and public amusement in the Duchy of Guelders (east Netherlands) in the 14th and 15th centuries, Gerard Nijsten
In the pit of the Burgundian Theatre state - urban traditions and princely ambitions in Ghent, 1360-1420, David Nicholas. (part contents).

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