City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe (Medieval Cultures)

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.Barbara Hanawalt is the author of 'City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe (Medieval Cultures)', published 1994 under ISBN 9780816623600 and ISBN 0816623600.