Urban Carnival
This is a significant new study of the festival culture of northern Europe in the later Middle Ages: more specifically of the German-speaking communities of the great cities of the eastern Baltic littoral in what was then called Livonia. While subject to a degree of Scandinavian influence, the festi...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Turnhout :
Brepols (éditions)
2005.
Turnhout : Brepols Publishers |
| Colecção: | Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe
8 |
| Acesso em linha: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Titre provenant des métadonnées Brepols e-books (Licence nationale) |
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| Resumo: | This is a significant new study of the festival culture of northern Europe in the later Middle Ages: more specifically of the German-speaking communities of the great cities of the eastern Baltic littoral in what was then called Livonia. While subject to a degree of Scandinavian influence, the festival culture of Livonian cities such as Riga, Reval (Tallinn), and Dorpat (Tartu), all members of the Hanseatic League, substantially overlapped with that of other German-speaking areas, not least the Hanseatic cities of northern Germany. The major part of the book is devoted to the main annual festivals of the merchants' guilds: Christmas, Carnival, the popinjay shoot, and the May Count celebrations. There follows an analysis of specific aspects of the festivals: spatial contexts, finances, food and drink, entertainments (dances, jousts, games), customs and rituals. There is also a concluding glance at changes in festival culture after the Reformation. The study combines close scrutiny of local customs (made possible by the almost miraculous survival of uniquely detailed documentation), contextualization within the wider comparative context of festival culture in late-medieval Europe, and an alterness to significant recent scholarship in both English and German. |
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| ISBN: | 9782503561677 |
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