Ritual in Early Modern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Edward Muir is Professor of History of the Northwestern University. His publications include Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (1981) and Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy (1998). Zusammenfassung This comprehensive 2005 study of the rituals of early modern Europe argues that the period 1400 to 1700 witnessed a revolution in ritual theory. While reformers sought to replace sacraments with the authority of scripture! and despite attempts by intellectuals to dismiss their power! ritual practices endured as much as ever. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: what is ritual?; Part I. The Ritual Moment: 1. Rites of passage; 2. The ritual calendar; Part II. Rituals of the Body: 3. Carnival and the lower body; 4. Manners and the upper body; Part III. Ritual Representation: 5. The Reformation as a revolution in ritual theory; 6. The Reformation as a ritual process; 7. Government as a ritual process; Epilogue: mere ritual.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Edward Muir, Edward (Northwestern University Muir
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521602402
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60240-2
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung