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Enter the king : theatre, liturgy, and ritual in the medieval civic triumph /

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Enter The King examines the medieval civic triumph as a theatrical ritual designed to inaugurate the sovereign into his reign. As the king entered the city gates, he became the chief actor in an elaborate court spectacle defined by the citizens' pageantry and witnessed by his subjects.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kipling, Gordon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
Subjects:
Civilization, Medieval.
Pageants.
Triumph.
Rites and ceremonies, Medieval.
Civilisation médiévale.
Spectacles historiques.
Triomphe.
Rites et cérémonies médiévaux.
pageants.
triumphs.
Civilization, Medieval
Pageants
Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
Triumph
Electronic books.
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