Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France

Essays in Honour of Elizabeth A. R. Brown

Edited by Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin Edited by Jay Rubenstein

Book cover: Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France

Extent: 457 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: French Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Series volume number: 34

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9782503593029

Price: $145.00

In stock

In this volume, thirteen of the world’s leading scholars of medieval France explore some of the most important ideas, events, personalities, and artistic creations of the Capetian world (987-1328). From some of the earliest medieval attempts to make narrative treatments of French history, through the invention of the schools, the creation of Gothic architecture, the practices of chivalry, the practice of statecraft, and the promulgation of law codes, the volume offers a panoramic view of the kingdom and the era that has come to define the medieval world in both the scholarly and popular imaginations. The scholars brought together in this volume share as well a common sense of gratitude and an intellectual debt to Elizabeth A. R. Brown, whose own rigour and brilliance has inspired their work and shaped their sense of the past. Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France is both a tribute to a scholar of real accomplishment and a collection of original scholarship raised upon on the foundations that Elizabeth A. R. Brown herself set down.

  • Edited by Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin
  • Edited by Jay Rubenstein