Lawrence M. Bryant

Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings. Bryant looks at royal entrées as massive processional and street theaters in which members of the kingdom both discoursed with and exalted the king in a multiplicity of ritual forms, symbolis

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040242971
• Artikelnr.: 72289646

Autorenporträt

Lawrence M. Bryant is Emeritus Professor in the History Department, California State University, Chico, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: from ephemeral to perdurable rituals and
ceremonies; Parlementaire political theory in the Parisian royal entry
ceremony; The medieval entry ceremony at Paris; Configurations of the
community in late medieval spectacles: Paris and London during the dual
monarchy; 'What face to put on?': extravagance and royal authority in Louis
XI's ceremonies; Politics, ceremonies, and the embodiments of majesty in
Henry II's France; Making history: ceremonial texts, royal space, and
political theory in the 16th century; Graphic history: what readers knew
and were taught in the Quarante Tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel; From
communal ritual to royal spectacle: some observations on the staging of
royal entries (1450-1600); Royal ceremony and the revolutionary strategies
of the Third Estate; Index.