Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7546-6846-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Reihe: Variorum Collected Studies

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, symbolism and public art. These ceremonies personalized the idea of the state as embodied in the king, and they publicized rights and authority, new historical or mythological themes, innovative styles of monumental architecture and art, and theories of ideal and shared government.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bryant, Lawrence M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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