ISBN:
9780691201351
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (378 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Chojnacki, Stanley [Rezension von: Muir, Edward, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice] 1984
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DDC:
306/.24/094531
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Abstract:
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and A Note on Dating -- Introduction -- Map: The Ritual Geography of Venice -- Part one : Myth and Ritual -- one : The Myth of Venice -- The Meaning of the Myth -- Historiography of the Myth -- Myth and Reality -- The Myth Abroad -- From Myth to Ritual or from Ritual to Myth? -- Part Two : An Inheritance of Legend and Ritual -- Two : An Escaped Trojan and A Transported Evangelist:Auspicious Beginnings -- The Legends of the Origins of Venice -- The Festive Calendar -- Pax Tibi Marce Evangelista Meus -- Saints Theodore, George, and Nicholas -- Three : A Grateful Pope and A Dowered Bride.-Imperial Prerogatives -- The Donation of Pope Alexander III -- The Marriage of the Sea -- Four : Twelve Wooden Marys and A Fat Thursday: A Serene Society -- The Doge's Annual Visit to Santa Maria Formosa -- Giovedi Grasso and the Carnival Season -- Part Three : Government By Ritual -- Five : A Republic of Processions -- From Theory to Practice -- The Ducal Procession -- Six : The Ritual Occasion -- Annual Observances -- Corpus Christi -- Special Observances -- Seven : The Paradoxical Prince -- The Doge as Primus Inter Pares and as Princeps -- The Funeral and Coronation of the Doge -- The Dogaressa -- Conclusion -- Manuscript Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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