South Asian Religions on Display
South Asian Religions on Display

Author: Knut A. Jacobsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 113407459X

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Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. This volume presents current research on this important phenomenon dealing with interpretations of the role of processions, the recent increase in processions and changes in the procession traditions.

Elizabethan Triumphal Processions
Elizabethan Triumphal Processions

Author: William Leahy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1351940813

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Until now, scholarly analysis of Elizabethan processions has always regarded them as having been successful in their function as propaganda, and has always found them to have effectively 'won over' the common people - that group of the population at whom they were chiefly aimed. Both her Royal entries and progresses were regarded as effective public relations exercises, the population gaining access to the Queen and thus being encouraged to remain loyal subjects. This book represents a new approach to this subject by investigating whether this was actually the case - that is, whether the common people were actually won over by these spectacular rituals. By examining original documents that have thus far been ignored, as well as re-examining others from the perspective of the common people, the book casts a new light on Elizabethan processions.

Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome

Author: Jacob A. Latham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1316692426

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The pompa circensis, the procession which preceded the chariot races in the arena, was both a prominent political pageant and a hallowed religious ritual. Traversing a landscape of memory, the procession wove together spaces and institutions, monuments and performers, gods and humans into an image of the city, whose contours shifted as Rome changed. In the late Republic, the parade produced an image of Rome as the senate and the people with their gods - a deeply traditional symbol of the city which was transformed during the empire when an imperial image was built on top of the republican one. In late antiquity, the procession fashioned a multiplicity of Romes: imperial, traditional, and Christian. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the webs of symbolic meanings in the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642
The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642

Author: Siobhan Keenan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-05-06

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0192595814

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The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642 is the first study to focus on the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the travels and public profile of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king's progresses and Caroline progress entertainments than currently exists, this volumes throws fresh light on the question of Charles I's accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the political conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles's overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the history opens with an introduction to the early modern culture of royal progresses and public ceremonial as inherited and practiced by Charles I. Part I explores the question of the king's accessibility further through case studies of Charles's three 'great' progresses in 1633, 1634, and 1636. Part II turns attention to royal public ceremonial culture in Caroline London, focusing on Charles's spectacular royal entry to the city on 25 November 1641. More widely travelled than his ancestors, Progresses reveals a monarch who was only too well aware of the value of public ceremonial and who did not eschew it, even if he was not always willing to engage in ceremonial dialogue with his subjects or able to deploy the propaganda power of public display as successfully as his Tudor and Stuart predecessors.

Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl
Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl

Author: Judith Weingarten

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1803275340

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Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.