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Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph
Enter the King Theatre Liturgy and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph
Author: Gordon Kipling
This study describes for the first time the ritual purposes, symbolic vocabulary, and quasi-dramatic form of one late medieval courtly festival, the royal entry. Although the royal entry as a formal ceremony can be traced back as an unbroken tradition from late Classical times through to the Renaissance, Kipling begins where the royal entry adop...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198117612
ISBN-10: 0198117612
Publication Date: 5/7/1998
Pages: 393
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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