Civic Ritual And Drama.(Ludus. Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 2)

Wim HÃ SKEN, Alexandra F. JOHNSTON

ISBN 10: 9042001208 / ISBN 13: 9789042001206

Published by Rodopi Bv Editions, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Civic Ritual And Drama.(Ludus. Medieval and Early Renaissance Theatre and Drama 2)
• Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042001208
• ISBN 13: 9789042001206
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Late medieval and renaissance cities, though powerful communities jealous of their own jurisdiction, were constantly negotiating their relationships with other secular and religious authorities. The seven essays in this collection treat various aspects of civic display and pageantry during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The overwhelming sense one receives is that the solemne pomps were essentially about power ― how to get it, display it, share it and retain it. Each paper demonstrates how, through ceremony and symbol, municipalities sought to fashion their own corporate self-image in order to establish the limits of their authority in relationship to the countervailing powers sur-rounding them. The essays are concerned with the period before the ever widening impact of the Reformation and the intellectual and political revolutions it spawned had reached the level of civic pageantry. In the varied rituals considered here we can see reflected the highly sophisticated minds of their creators using the symbolic landscape of their religious and cultural past in important acts of corporate self-fashioning.