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Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London de Barbara A. Hanawalt

Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London

Autor Barbara A. Hanawalt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2017

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Ceremony and Civility abordează stabilitatea socială nu prin prisma legilor scrise, ci prin exercițiile de putere vizuală și spectacolul public. Barbara A. Hanawalt propune o analiză riguroasă a Londrei medievale târzii, unde marea masă a populației era formată din imigranți fără drepturi de cetățenie. În acest context, autoarea demonstrează cum ceremoniile de învestire, purtarea robelor distinctive și procesiunile religioase nu erau simple elemente de decor, ci instrumente vitale de educație civică și control social. Notăm cu interes accentul pus pe latura practică a acestor ritualuri: de la ucenicul care învață ierarhia prin jurăminte, până la spectacolul umilirii publice rezervat delincvenților, menit să servească drept avertisment colectiv.

Merită menționat că volumul funcționează ca o sinteză între datele de arhivă londoneze și teoriile sociologice despre legitimitate. Într-o societate unde autoritatea era adesea ereditară, oficialii aleși ai Londrei au fost nevoiți să „inventeze” o tradiție vizuală pentru a-și securiza poziția în fața coroanei și a propriilor cetățeni. Această ediție de la Oxford University Press reprezintă o alternativă la Civic Ritual and Drama pentru cursurile de istorie urbană sau antropologie istorică, cu avantajul că oferă o perspectivă unitară asupra modului în care o singură metropolă își gestionează identitatea prin performanță.

În contextul operei sale, Ceremony and Civility continuă preocuparea autoarei pentru structurile sociale intime, observată în The Ties That Bound, dar mută focalizarea de la familia rurală către dinamica complexă a puterii urbane. Dacă în The Wealth of Wives Hanawalt explora latura economică a Londrei, aici ea completează tabloul cu dimensiunea simbolică și politică a vieții cotidiene.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190490409
ISBN-10: 0190490403
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare studenților și cercetătorilor interesați de istoria mentalităților și evoluția guvernării urbane. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care ritualul transformă o populație disparată într-o comunitate civică funcțională. Este un studiu esențial pentru a înțelege rădăcinile ordinii publice și rolul spectacolului în legitimarea puterii politice, oferind o perspectivă clară asupra mecanismelor de integrare socială în premodernitate.

Despre autor

Barbara A. Hanawalt este profesor emerit de istorie la University of Minnesota și o autoritate recunoscută în studiul societății medievale engleze. Cercetările sale s-au concentrat constant pe viața cotidiană, structurile familiale și sistemele de justiție din perioada medievală târzie. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără The Ties That Bound, o analiză a familiilor de țărani bazată pe rapoartele medicilor legiști din secolul al XIV-lea, și The Wealth of Wives, care investighează rolul economic al femeilor în Londra medievală. Abordarea sa îmbină rigoarea analizei documentelor juridice cu o sensibilitate deosebită pentru aspectele umane și sociale ale istoriei.

Descriere

In Ceremony and Civility, Barbara Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle Ages, London's elected officials and elites used ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy and power. These civic ceremonies helped delineate the relationship between London's mayors and the crown, but also between denizens and their government, between gild wardens and their members, between masters and apprentices, and between parishioners and their churches. London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population--only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens--and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and ceremony played key roles in this acculturation process. In a society in which hierarchical authority was most commonly determined by inheritance of title and office, or sanctified by ordination, civic officials who had been elected to their posts relied on rituals to cement their authority, power, and dominance. Since the typical term of elected office was a year, elections and inaugurations had to be very public and visually distinct in order to quickly communicate with the masses: the robes of office needed to distinguish the officers so that everyone would know who they were. The result was a colorful civic pageantry. Newcomers themselves found their places within this structure in various ways. Apprentices entering the city to take up a trade were educated in civic culture by their masters. Gilds similarly used rituals, oath swearing, and distinctive livery to mark their members' belonging. But these public shows of belonging and orderly civic life also had a dark side. Those who rebelled against authority and broke the civic ordinances were made spectacles through ritual humiliations and public parades through the streets so that others could take heed of these offenders of the law. At the parish level, and even at the level of the street, civic behavior was taught through example, through proclamations, and even through performances, like ballads.An accessible look at late medieval London through the lens of civic ceremonies and dispute resolution, Ceremony and Civility synthesizes archival research in London with existing scholarship to show how newcomers in an ever-shifting population were enculturated into premodern London.

Recenzii

This book is valuable as an introduction to the culture of governance of a medieval town, and will no doubt be very helpful to undergraduates and others approaching the topic for the first time (for such readers, it contains a handy glossary of relevant terms). It also ffers a fresh perspective on the topic by virtue of its attention to the newcomers to the city and others who were not integrated into civic institutions. The paperback edition contains many reproductions (in greyscale) of prints, drawings and manuscript images which evoke the experience of the medieval city.
Hanawalt makes an original and valuable contribution by focusing on the integrative purpose of civic culture in a city where citizenship was the preserve of a relatively small group and real political power was even more restricted.This book is valuable as an introduction to the culture of governance of a medieval town, and will no doubt be very helpful to undergraduates and others approaching the topic for the first time...It also offers a fresh perspective on the topic by virtue of its attention to the newcomers to the city and others who were not integrated into civic institutions.
In Ceremony and Civility, as in her earlier work, Hanawalt carefully sifts through the archival materials and listens to what the documents have to say about Londoners' ideas of order, their annual observances, and even the smells, sights, and sounds on the streets... The reader will soak in both the civic organization of medieval London and its rich ideological and performative accoutrements. As such, Ceremony and Civility has much to offer readers as they consider the complex use and meanings of space by and for medieval actors.
Hanawalt's long record of books that combine careful scholarship with an approachable style is extended here, with an appeal to general readers as well as to students....Highly recommended.
Barbara Hanawalt's book is an excellent synthesis on London, exposing vividly nearly every aspect of urban life from the Guildhall to the ill-famed taverns. Her approach of the importance of the didactic nature of the ceremonies and rituals concerning the values and the power of the oligarchy is also very stimulating. Besides, it is well written and accessible to students and even a larger public, all the more so that it contains a glossary and an index of the notions, institutions and so on, explained in the book... This 'final book' of a fine historian is a great one and largely deserves to be read if one wants to understand the life of the most important city of late medieval England.

Notă biografică

Barbara A. Hanawalt is King George III Professor of British History Emerita, Ohio State University. Her books include The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986); Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History (1993); Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England (1999); and The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and the Economy in Late Medieval London (2007).