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While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal court and the urban centers constantly renegotiated their relationship. This book is the first to apply the combined insights of social, political, and cultural history to an important but little-explored area of medieval and early modern Europe, the Burgundian Netherlands. Realms of Ritual traces the role of ritual in encounters between the dukes of Burgundy (later the Habsburg princes) and the townspeople of Ghent, the most important city in the county of Flanders. Arnade analyzes city-state ceremonies through which Ghent's aldermen, patricians, guildsmen, and the city's military and drama confraternities confronted local power and the growth of the Burgundian state. In the first serious reappraisal of Johan Huizinga's classic work The Waning of the Middle Ages, Arnade confirms Huizinga's vision of a Low Country society rich in public symbols, yet reveals the city-state conflict within which such ritual thrived. He offers a dramatically new perspective on the Northern Renaissance, as well as a historical/anthropological model for the study of urban-state relations.

Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Political Science & Political History. --- Ghent (Belgium) --- Belgium --- Social life and customs. --- History

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Based on narrative, iconographical, and liturgical sources, this is the first systematic study to trace the story of the ritual of royal self-coronations from Ancient Persia to the present. Exposing as myth the idea that Napoleon's act of self-coronation in 1804 was the first extraordinary event to break the secular tradition of kings being crowned by bishops, Jaume Aurell vividly demonstrates that self-coronations were not as transgressive or unconventional as has been imagined. Drawing on numerous examples of royal self-coronations, with a particular focus on European Kings of the Middle Ages, including Frederic II of Germany (1229), Alphonse XI of Castile (1328), Peter IV of Aragon (1332) and Charles III of Navarra (1390), Aurell draws on history, anthropology, ritual studies, liturgy and art history to explore royal self-coronations as privileged sites at which the frontiers and limits between the temporal and spiritual, politics and religion, tradition and innovation are encountered.

Coronations --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Couronnements --- Rites et cérémonies --- History. --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Medieval rites and ceremonies --- Civilization, Medieval --- Crowning of sovereigns --- Kings and rulers --- Pageants --- Rites and ceremonies --- Crowns --- History --- Coronation --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval.

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Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment in time. This book ? the outcome of forty years of research ? takes an interdisciplinary approach to burial practices in Ireland in order to interpret and to chart the development of burial rites as they appear in the archaeological record of the late Iron Age (c.200 BC?AD 300) and early medieval period (c.AD 400?800). Sources used include archaeological excavation evidence; c14 (radiocarbon) dating evidence; strontium and oxygen isotope evidence for movement of peoples; and osteo-archaeological evidence. This is combined with a careful and discerning examination of references to death, burial and associated events that appear in Irish hagiography, penitentials, laws and canons compiled during the seventh and eighth centuries. Topics covered include: the transition from cremation to inhumation; re-use of ancient ancestral burial places; occasional use of grave-goods; funeral feasts; atypical or deviant burials; mobility of people within and into Ireland; the exceptional burials of some women; the cessation of burial of Christians among their ancestors; and burial in early Church cemeteries.

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Early Christian --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Iron age --- History --- Ireland --- Antiquities.

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Art, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- Festivals in art --- Festivals --- Holidays in art --- Rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- History --- Middle ages --- Social life and customs.

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La volonté de perpétuer ou de manifester sa situation privilégiée après la mort semble un trait commun à beaucoup de sociétés humaines. Les gestes effectués avant et pendant l'inhumation, le choix du lieu et la structure de la tombe prennent ainsi une dimension symbolique, politique, sociale, religieuse ou économique. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume interrogent notamment la mise en scène des funérailles et la représentation commémorative du défunt, le rôle du lieu de sépulture comme expression des pouvoirs laïcs ou religieux, la reconnaissance et la signification des inhumations dites « privilégiées» à l'intérieur de l'espace funéraire.

Religious architecture --- Sociology of culture --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- History of Europe --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 300-399 --- anno 400-499 --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funérailles --- History --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval --- Death --- Social aspects --- Conferences - Meetings --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Medieval funeral rites and ceremonies --- Philosophy --- Funeral rites and ceremonies [Medieval] --- Congresses --- To 1500 --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Medieval - History - Congresses --- Death - Social aspects - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Inhumation --- Tombeaux --- Sépulture --- Prestige --- Archéologie médiévale --- France --- Moyen âge