Laudes regiae
Title | Laudes regiae PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 318 |
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Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies
Title | Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Reginald Allen Brown |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780851151618 |
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1981
Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550
Title | Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550 PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Wright |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 2008-10-30 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521088343 |
This book is a history of the early musical life of the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame. All aspects of the musical establishment of Notre Dame are covered, from Merovingian times to the period of the wars of religion in France. Nine discrete essays discuss the history of Parisian chant and liturgy and the pattern and structure of the cathedral services in the late Middle Ages; Notre Dame polyphony and the composers most closely associated with the cathedral, among them Leoninus, Perotinus and Philippe de Vitry; the organ and its repertoire; the choir, the musical education and performing traditions; and the relationship of the cathedral to the court.
The Haskins Society Journal 13
Title | The Haskins Society Journal 13 PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Morillo |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843830504 |
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign, miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth century, and contemporary views of secular clergy. Contributors: CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD, K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.
The King's Two Bodies
Title | The King's Two Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Ernst Kantorowicz |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 633 |
Release | 2016-05-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1400880785 |
Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma posed by the “King’s two bodies”—the body natural and the body politic—back to the Middle Ages. The king’s natural body has physical attributes, suffers, and dies, as do all humans; however the king’s spiritual body transcends the earth and serves as a symbol of his office as majesty with the divine right to rule. Bringing together liturgical works, images, and polemical material, Kantorowicz demonstrates how early modern Western monarchies gradually began to develop a political theology. Featuring a new introduction and preface, The King’s Two Bodies is a subtle history of how commonwealths developed symbolic means for establishing their sovereignty and, with such means, began to establish early forms of the nation-state.
Music and the Making of Medieval Venice
Title | Music and the Making of Medieval Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie L. Reuland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2023-10-26 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1009424998 |
Introducing a new geographical paradigm for the study of medieval music, this path-breaking book uncovers the role of music, liturgy, and ritual in building Venice's empire in the eastern Mediterranean, activating the city's material culture, and shaping its state-craft of the imagination.
The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Title | The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877) PDF eBook |
Author | Ildar H. Garipzanov |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004166696 |
This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.