Ritual In Early Modern Europe

Author : Edward Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841534

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Ritual in Early Modern Europe by Edward Muir Pdf

The comprehensive 2005 study of rituals in early modern Europe argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize the persistence of traditional Christian ritual practices even as educated elites attempted to privilege reason over passion, textual interpretation over ritual action, and moral rectitude over gaining access to supernatural powers. Edward Muir discusses wide ranging themes such as rites of passage, carnivalesque festivity, the rise of manners, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the alleged anti-Christian rituals of Jews and witches. This edition examines the impact on the European understanding of ritual from the discoveries of new civilizations in the Americas and missionary efforts in China and adds more material about rituals peculiar to women.

Author : E. William Monter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015008018130

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Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe by E. William Monter Pdf

Author : Edward Muir
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0801858496

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Mad Blood Stirring by Edward Muir Pdf

Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals—the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of Romeo and Juliet). Mad Blood Stirring is a gripping account and analysis of this event, as well as the social structures and historical conflicts preceding it and the subtle shifts in the mentality of revenge it introduced. This new reader's edition offers students and general readers an abridged version of this classic work which shifts the focus from specialized scholarly analysis to the book's main theme: the role of vendetta in city and family politics. Uncovering the many connections between the carnival motifs, hunting practices, and vendetta rituals, Muir finds that the Udine massacre occurred because, at that point in Renaissance history, violent revenge and allegiance to factions provided the best alternative to failed political institutions. But the carnival massacre also marked a crossroads: the old mentality of vendetta was soon supplanted by the emerging sense that the direct expression of anger should be suppressed—to be replaced by duels.

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475830

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Medieval and Early Modern Ritual: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan by Joelle Rollo-Koster Pdf

The essays in this volume transcend Eastern and Western geographical boundaries during a loosely defined medieval and early modern period, ranging from Carolingian Europe to Qing China, and pull rituals out of their geographical contexts. Cultural history binds these essays together. This volume permits readers to compare ritual in religious and secular contexts, in the East and West, and to focus on the purposes of ritual, without being caught up in localism or historical jingoism. The various essays are organized chronologically and thematically; they focus on ritual and gender, law, identity and political legitimization. They cover topics as varied as the spatial appropriation of surfaces and territories, charity, carnival, women's magic, the Jesuits, graffiti, theater, business, medicine, Qing imperial ceremonies, Chinese princesses coming of age, spiritual reconciliation, and the Great Western Schism. Contributors include: Catherine Bell, Virginia A. Cole, Andrée Courtemanche, James L. Hevia, Michael W. Maher, S.J., Véronique Plesch, Marguerite Ragnow, Martha Rampton, Eric C. Rath, Dylan Reid, Kathryn Reyerson, Joëlle Rollo-Koster, and Ann Waltner.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Sports
ISBN : OCLC:233295099

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שאלות למחקר בתחום הספורט by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Karant-Nunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134829187

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The Reformation of Ritual by Susan Karant-Nunn Pdf

In The Reformation of Ritual Susan Karant-Nunn explores the function of ritual in early modern German society, and the extent to which it was modified by the Reformation. Employing anthropological insights, and drawing on extensive archival research, Susan Karant-Nunn outlines the significance of the ceremonial changes. This comprehensive study includes an examination of all major rites of passage: birth, baptism, confirmation, engagement, marriage, the churching of women after childbirth, penance, the Eucharist, and dying. The author argues that the changes in ritual made over the course of the century reflect more than theological shifts; ritual was a means of imposing discipline and of making the divine more or less accessible. Church and state cooperated in using ritual as one means of gaining control of the populace.

Author : Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012421171

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Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe by Janet Laughland Nelson Pdf

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872980

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Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Allison Levy Pdf

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.

Author : Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271041391

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The King's Body by Sergio Bertelli,R. Burr Litchfield Pdf

The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.

Author : Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135191955

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The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Andrea Brady,Emily Butterworth Pdf

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Author : Merridee L. Bailey,Katie Barclay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319441856

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Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200–1920 by Merridee L. Bailey,Katie Barclay Pdf

This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual. The study of rituals, when it is alert to the emotions which are woven into and through ritual activities, presents an opportunity to explore profoundly important questions about people’s relationships with others, their relationships with the divine, with power dynamics and importantly, with their concept of their own identity. Each chapter in this volume showcases the different approaches, theories and methodologies that can be used to explore emotions in historical rituals, but they all share the goal of answering the question of how emotions act within ritual to inform balances of power in its many and varied forms. Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Author : Richard C. Trexler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0801499798

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Public Life in Renaissance Florence by Richard C. Trexler Pdf

Public life - Humanism - Civic humanism - Friendship - Ritual - Alberti - Women in Florence - Family - Everyday life in Florence.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474324812

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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe by Peter Burke Pdf

Author : J.R. Mulryne,Krista De Jonge,R.L.M. Morris,Pieter Martens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317146971

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Occasions of State by J.R. Mulryne,Krista De Jonge,R.L.M. Morris,Pieter Martens Pdf

This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced academics provides a unique account of spectacular occasions of state which influenced the political, social and cultural lives of contemporary societies. International pan-European turbulence associated with post-Reformation religious conflict supplies the context within which the book explores how the period’s rulers and élite families competed for power – in a forecast of today’s divided world.

Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425285

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Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell Pdf

An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.