IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1110: Politics, Rituals, and the Propagation of Power: Urban Religious Processions in Medieval Europe and Beyond, I - Residential and Capital Cities

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Exzellenzcluster 212: 'Religion und Politik', Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Organiser:	Károly Goda, Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Moderator/Chair:	Christian Krötzl, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, History & Philosophy, University of Tampere
Paper 1110-a	Praising the King, Honouring the Republic: Ragusan Civic and Religious Ceremonies in Honour of King Sigismund of Luxemburg (1387-1437) (Language: English) Zrinka Pešorda Vardić, Department of Medieval History, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1110-b	Staging the Mighty: Festive Culture and Urban Processions in Late Medieval Buda and Vienna (Language: English) Károly Goda, Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Index terms: Local History, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1110-c	The City as a Stage: The Presence of Rulers and Town-Dwellers in the Medieval Urban Processions in Japan (Language: English) Megumi Hasegawa, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	This session aims to investigate the closely interwoven relationships between ecclesiastical rituals and urban and territorial politics through examining the legitimising role of medieval urban religious processions. Accordingly, papers dedicated to all-inclusive or smaller processions targeting the spheres of spirituality and politics in episcopal, imperial, residential etc. towns are equally incorporated. Among the main topics of the session the (re)formation of urban political and religious hierarchies, the means of external interventions and the (re)invention of the procession as a 'lieu de mémoire' deserve a special attention. Finally, papers dealing with the comparison between European and non-European cities are also invited.