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Regarding Manneken Pis - Culture, Celebration and Conflict in Brussels (Hardcover)
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Regarding Manneken Pis - Culture, Celebration and Conflict in Brussels (Hardcover)
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Manneken Pis, a fountain featuring a bronze child urinating, has
stood on the same Brussels street corner since at least the
mid-fifteenth century. Since there is no consensus on its meaning,
it has been used to express many different readings of social
relations in a complex city and nation state. It has formed part of
the festival culture of the city from royal entries to gay pride
but has also been exploited in conflicts arising out of war and
occupation, and the tensions inherent in modern Belgium. Drawing on
archives, histories, police reports, devotional literature,
ephemera and a wealth of other sources, Catherine Emerson examines
how one smaller-than-lifesized water source has come to embody a
certain sort of Brussels identity.
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