City and spectacle in medieval Europe
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. The authors reveal a public cognizant of the power of symbols to express its goals and achievements.
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1994
Aufsatzsammlung
xx, 331 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780816623594, 9780816623600, 0816623597, 0816623600
28631352
Configurations of the community in late medieval spectacles : Paris and London during the dual monarchy / Lawrence M. Bryant
Civic liturgies and urban records in Northern France, 1100-1400 / Brigitte Bedos-Rezak
La grant feste : 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
Icons, altarpieces, and civic ritual in Siena Cathedral, 1100-1530 / Bram Kempers
The liturgy of the count's advent in Bruges, from Galbert to Van Eyck / James M. Murray
The spectacle of suffering in Spanish streets / Maureen Flynn
Ceremony and oligarchy : the London midsummer watch / Sheila Lindenbaum
Unity or division? The social meaning of guild ceremony in urban communities / Benjamin R. McRee
The politics of welcome : ceremonies and constitutional development in later medieval English towns / Lorraine Attreed
The Duke and his towns : the power of ceremonies, feasts, and public amusement in the Duchy of Guelders (East Netherlands) in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Gerard Nijsten
In the pit of the Burgundian theater state : urban traditions and princely ambitions in Ghent, 1360-1420 / David Nicholas
Elite and popular culture in late fifteenth-century Castilian festivals : the case of Jaén / Teofilo F. Ruiz
Papers from a conference at the University of Minnesota, 1991