Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c.1300-1520 /

Civic ceremony and religion in medieval Bruges c.1300-1520 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brown, Andrew, 1964-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Description:	xiv, 368 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Civil religion -- Belgium -- Bruges. Rites and ceremonies -- Belgium -- Bruges. Civil religion. Religion. Rites and ceremonies. Bruges (Belgium) -- Religion. Bruges (Belgium) -- Religious life and customs. Bruges (Belgium) -- Church history. Belgium -- Bruges. Church history.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8435061

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ISBN:	9780521764452 (hardback) 0521764459 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-350) and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of maps
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Note on currency and monies of account
Introduction
Civic space and time: Bruges c. 1300
'Civic religion'
Civic ceremony
Civic government and civic peace
1. The Holy Blood procession
Civic funding
Civic order
Civic disorder
Civic identity
2. General processions
Origins
Processions and civic authority
Processions and St Donatian's church
3. Feast days and liturgical commemoration
Commemoration for the soul c. 1200-1400
Public and civic devotion
Public worship in the fifteenth century
4. Guilds: feast, festivity and public worship
Guild foundation in the fourteenth century
Guild membership and activity
Guilds and public worship
5. Guilds and civic government
Civic investment in festivity c. 1300-1400
Festive events and civic honour c. 1400-1500
Festive events and the 'public good' c. 1400-1500
The common good and urban conflict: the end of the White Bear
6. Civic charity
Foundations for the poor
Charity and municipal authority
Charity and liturgy
Civic networks of intercession
7. Civic ceremony, religion and the counts of Flanders
Ceremony in the presence of the prince
Ceremony in the absence of the prince
Conclusion and epilogue: civic morality c. 1500
Appendices
1. Order of craft guilds in the Holy Blood procession
2. Dating obits and foundations in the planarii of Bruges churches
3. Foundations augmenting feast days (by date)
4. Foundations augmenting feast days c. 1200-1520
5. Guilds and fraternities in Bruges churches
Bibliography
Index