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Article: Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Nicholas Howe, ed. Ceremonial Culture in Pre-Modern Europe.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. viii + 160 pp. index. illus. $25. ISBN: 978-0-268-03075-9.
These four essays, introduced by the late Nicholas Howe, treat the court ceremony surrounding entries and the role of visual culture in shaping sacred and civic processions. The book is well illustrated, befitting a work that attempts to close the gap between the ephemeral, abstract world of ceremony and the actual, literal world of the event itself. All contributions explore what it meant to be a spectator to such processions, thereby expanding the previous scope of scholarly studies.
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