
The Dangers of Ritual
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The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-century representations of Christian martyrdom--allows for the line of development to be peeled back layer by layer. It then turns to an analysis of the formation of the intellectual traditions that contemporary historians have employed to interpret medieval documents. Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century, Buc highlights the continuities yet also the profound transformations between the early medieval understandings and our own, social-scientific models.
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 ''rituals'' might have functioned. Ultimately, he argues, too swift an application of contemporary models to highly complex textual artifacts blinds us to the specificities of early medieval European political culture.
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- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Late Antique and Early Medieval Narratives
- Chapter One: Writing Ottonian Hegemony: Good Rituals and Bad Rituals in Liudprand of Cremona
- Chapter Two: Ritual Consensus and Ritual Violence: Texts and Events in Ninth-Century Carolingian Political Culture
- Chapter Three: Rites of Saints and Rites of Kings: Consensus and Transgression in the Works of Gregory of Tours
- Chapter Four: The Late Antique Matrix: Martyrdom and Ritual
- Part II: From Theology to the Social Sciences, ca. 1500-ca. 1910
- Chapter Five: Rites, Rituals, and Order, ca. 1500-ca. 1800
- Chapter Six: Medieval History and the Social Sciences, ca. 1800-ca. 1970
- Chapter Seven: Epilogue
- Index
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