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Between 1810 and 1813 the Master of Ceremonies Count Gundacker Heinrich Wurmbrand drafted an „Etiquette-Normale für den österreichischen Kaiserhof“, which is a unique source for the reconstruction of everyday ceremonies at the Viennese court after the Napoleonic era. The text define the role of the Emperor, the ranks of the members of his entourage and the status of the court servants in a complex, symbolic system of relations. Court and court society are presented as a well-ordered mechanism to celebrate the dignity and rank of the Austrian Empire invented in 1804 and to legitimize it through symbolic communication.

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Referring, by way of example, to the chronicler's story about a dynastic conflict in medieval Poland, this book offers an insight into the modes of using ritual as an effective tool of political action in the Middle Ages—both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative information about that practice—and then reflects about the nature of the relationship between the reality of the written account and the reality of the practical activities described in it. It demonstrates the ways in which the reality of the narrative account and the reality of practics—ritual-in-text and ritual-in-performance—overlaid and interlaced one another, and exercised a mutual impact, thereby jointly creating a framework within which, in the earlier and high Middle Ages, political activity took place.

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Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

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Der Sammelband trägt zur althistorischen Diskussion über Charakter und Form politischen Handelns in der römischen Kaiserzeit bei. Er konzentriert sich auf den Osten des Imperium Romanum während der gesamten Kaiserzeit einschließlich der Spätantike. An konkreten Beispielen gehen die einzelnen Beiträge der Frage nach, welche Handlungsspielräume die Kaiser - aber auch auch andere Instanzen wie Statthalter und Städte - hatten, und ob sich in ihrem Handeln ein politischer Gestaltungswille erkennen lässt, der über das bloße Reagieren auf die Anstöße von Untertanen und Untergebenen hinausging. This collected volume contributes to the discussion among ancient historians of the character and form of political action in Imperial Rome. It concentrates on the East of the Imperium Romanum for the whole duration of the Imperial Era, including Late Antiquity. Using concrete examples, the individual papers explore the question of how much latitude and freedom of action was exercised by the emperors - and by other authorities, such as governors and cities - and whether their actions display a political strategy which went beyond merely reacting to impulses from their subjects and subordinates.

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Kings and rulers --- Political customs and rites --- Symbolism in politics --- Symbolic politics --- Political science --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Heads of state --- Queens --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Tsars --- Tzars --- History. --- Religious aspects&delete&&delete& --- Religious aspects