TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Andrew
TI  - Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c.1300-1520
AV  - BL980.B4 B76 2011eb
U1  - 264/.020909493122 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Civil religion
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Bruges
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
KW  - Bruges (Belgium)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Church history
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350) and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The Holy Blood Procession; 2. General processions; 3. Feast days and liturgical commemoration; 4. Guilds: feast, festivity and public worship; 5. Guilds and civic government; 6. Civic charity; 7. Civic ceremony, religion and the counts of Flanders; Conclusion and epilogue: civic morality c.1500
N2  - "Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important towns, to explore the role of religion and ceremony in urban society. The author situates the religious practices of citizens - their investment in the liturgy, commemorative services, guilds and charity - within the contexts of Bruges' highly diversified society and of the changes and crises the town experienced. Focusing on the religious processions and festivities sponsored by the municipal government, the author challenges much current thinking on, for example, the nature of 'civic religion'. Re-evaluating the ceremonial links between Bruges and its rulers, he questions whether rulers could dominate the urban landscape by religious or ceremonial means, and offers new insight into the interplay between ritual and power of relevance throughout medieval Europe"--
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