Enter the king : theatre, liturgy, and ritual in the medieval civic triumph / Gordon Kipling.

Enter The King examines the medieval civic triumph as a theatrical ritual designed to inaugurate the sovereign into his reign. As the king entered the city gates, he became the chief actor in an elaborate court spectacle defined by the citizens' pageantry and witnessed by his subjects.

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Main Author: Kipling, Gordon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
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