City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe

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.Hanawalt, Barbara A. is the author of 'City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe' with ISBN 9780816623594 and ISBN 0816623597.