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Public non secular perform lay on the center of civic society in past due medieval Europe. during this illuminating learn, Andrew Brown attracts at the wealthy and formerly little-researched records of Bruges, one in all medieval Europe's wealthiest and most vital cities, to discover the position of faith and rite in city society. the writer situates the spiritual practices of electorate - their funding within the liturgy, commemorative providers, guilds and charity - in the contexts of Bruges' hugely assorted society and of the adjustments and crises town skilled. targeting the non secular processions and festivities subsidized through the municipal executive, the writer demanding situations a lot present pondering on, for instance, the character of 'civic religion'. Re-evaluating the ceremonial hyperlinks among Bruges and its rulers, he questions even if rulers may well dominate the city panorama by means of non secular or ceremonial skill, and provides new perception into the interaction among ritual and gear of relevance all through medieval Europe
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67 See comments on ‘secularising’ effects of civic control of religion, in Chevalier, ‘Religion civique’, p. 349; G. Dickson, ‘The 115 Cults of Saints in Later Medieval and Renaissance Perugia:€ A Demographic Overview of a Civic Pantheon,’ in G. Dickson, Religious Enthusiasm in the Medieval West (Aldershot, 2000), pp. 6–25 (p. 19). It is perhaps a historiographical issue that is more dominant in some countries than in others. g. G. Rosser, ‘Urban Culture and the Church 1300–1540’, in D. M. ), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain:€Volume 1 600–1540 (Cambridge, 2000), pp.
3–6. For the ‘dangers’ of connecting ritual and society:€P. Buc, The Dangers of Ritual:€Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory (Princeton, 2001), esp. pp. 188–202. 79 Trexler, Public Life, p. 214. 80 E. Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton, 1981), pp. 5–6. For the city ‘representing itself to itself’ in processions (though with difficulties), see R. Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (London, 1984), p. 123. 81 C. Phythian-Adams, Desolation of a City:€ Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1979), p.