This new and expanded edition of the first comprehensive study of rituals in early modern Europe examines the impact on the European interpretation of ritual from the discoveries of new civilizations in the Americas and missionary efforts in China. It also adds more material about rituals peculiar to women. Edward Muir draws on extensive historical research to emphasize the persistence of traditional Christian ritual practices, even as enlightened elites attempted to choose reason over passion, textual interpretation over ritual action, and moral rectitude over gaining access to supernatural...
This new and expanded edition of the first comprehensive study of rituals in early modern Europe examines the impact on the European interpretation of...
Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory. Edward Muir traces the origins and development of this reputation, paying particular attention to the sixteenth century, when civic ritual in Venice reached its peak. He shows how the ritualization of society and politics was an important reason for Venice's stability. Influenced in part by cultural anthropology, he establishes and applies to Venice a new methodology for the historical study of civic ritual.
Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory. Edwa...
The inaugural volume of Selections from Quaderni Storici looks at sexual mores and gender in European social history from the Renaissance to the twelfth century.
The inaugural volume of Selections from Quaderni Storici looks at sexual mores and gender in European social history from the Renaissance to the twelf...
An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory... In essence these historians begin their analysis 'from below, ' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history. -- Catholic Historical Review. Selections from Quaderni Storici.
An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory... In essence these historians begin their analysis 'from below, ' v...
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...
Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals--the Udine carnival massacre of 1...
