City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe
Download or Read eBook City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe PDF written by Barbara Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Barbara Hanawalt |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0816623597 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780816623594 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe by : Barbara Hanawalt
Book excerpt: Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.
