Political Ritual and Political Imaginaries in the Early Middle Ages
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2001.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : “Political rituals,” a modern category, are (or should be) a problematic topic for the medievalist. The present article explores the early medieval purposes and functioning of the practices that scholars have identified as such. More fundamentally, it examines the role of authorial strategies in shaping the sources that they have used, too often ad litteram, to reconstruct “medieval rituality” and, with the help of social scientific models, to attribute a function to it. Finally, it underlines the gap between the early medieval understandings of such practices and the modern sociological or anthropological theories we often employ to read them.
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“Political rituals,” a modern category, are (or should be) a problematic topic for the medievalist. The present article explores the early medieval purposes and functioning of the practices that scholars have identified as such. More fundamentally, it examines the role of authorial strategies in shaping the sources that they have used, too often ad litteram, to reconstruct “medieval rituality” and, with the help of social scientific models, to attribute a function to it. Finally, it underlines the gap between the early medieval understandings of such practices and the modern sociological or anthropological theories we often employ to read them.
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