Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph

ISBN-13: 9780198117612 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 416 str.

Gordon Kipling; Rudyard Kipling

Opis

This study describes for the first time the ritual purposes, symbolic vocabulary, and quasi-dramatic form of one late medieval courtly festival, the royal entry. Although the royal entry as a formal ceremony can be traced back as an unbroken tradition from late Classical times through to the Renaissance, Kipling begins where the royal entry adopts pageantry as its essential medium in the late fourteenth century.

Recenzje

Gordon Kipling offers a rich and thoughtful contribution to cross-disciplinary studies in this work on late medieval civic rituals. Perhaps its true greatness lies in its insistence upon the intelligence and complexity of these rituals, the men who created them, and the messages deliberately but often subtly communicated to their noble and royal subjects ... his focus on the artistic and especially the liturgical components of the entry rituals is a welcome one ... provides readers with sufficient background to make sense of the liturgy chosen and imagery presented ... Characterized by deep learning and serious analysis, Enter the King enriches our knowledge of the history, literature, and theology of urban rituals in the closing decades of the Middle Ages.