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The dangers of ritual : between early medieval texts and social scientific theory /

"Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval documents how "ritu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buc, Philippe, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing Ottonian hegemony : good rituals and bad rituals in Liudprand of Cremona
  • Ritual consensus and ritual violence : texts and events in ninth-century Carolingian political culture
  • Rites of saints and rites of kings : consensus and transgression in the works of Gregory of Tours
  • The late antique matrix : martyrdom and ritual
  • Rites, rituals, and order, ca 1500-ca. 1800
  • Medieval history and the social sciences, ca. 1800-ca. 1970.