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Realms of Ritual - Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent (Hardcover, New)
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Realms of Ritual - Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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