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‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe functioning of Amerindian societies called for multiple comments and fed a wealth of literature that remains a prime source of intelligence and reflection for the researcher. These documents show how amerindian ludosportive practice is widespread geographically and cultural...

The Schehadé Theatre presents extraordinarily compliant didascalies. Making use of a protocol that is declining in the 20th century, the dramaturge makes the most of inherited teaching formulae and formats. First, there is a subtle poetry of the dessuet consonant with the anhistoric atmosphere and d...

“Piper to the Sovereign”: prestige and symbol of a very specific function. In September 1842, only five years after joining the throne, Queen Victoria travelled to Scotland, not by obligation but in order to discover part of her kingdom that she was hopeful to know. Walter Scott’s work had made him...

The Liber de ordinatione et officio totius anni in ecclesia Metensi, usually designed under the name Cérémonial, is a lost medieval liturgy manuscript which was last kept at Metz municipal library (ms. 82). Nowadays, the full text is fortunately known thanks to the scientific edition led by Bishop P...

The garden room, or simply the ‘room’ as called it until the beginning of the century, was the first room in the royal apartment. First, a room common to a wide variety of uses, she gradually became exclusive to the king’s bodyguards who passed the bulk of their service there when the King was in hi...

The historian bourguignon Olivier de la Marche, a faithful service of the Ducs de Bourgogne, is reproduced in detail in his memories — which trace the political events of the Church over a long period of the century — the festivals celebrated in 1468 in Bruges on the occasion of the marriage between...

This thesis attempts, for the first time, to address a comparative analysis of the role that liturgical music played in the process of building the sacred image of the sovereigns of the Bourbon House of France and Spain as part of the religious ceremonies celebrated in Madrid and Versailles during t...

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In the era of globalization, it is important to reflect on the realities that make this globalization possible. In the study of the social facts, the body becomes one of the foundations of socialization in societies referred to as traditional, but also in the modern societies. The traditional weddin...

Through the example of Ms Necker. the woman of Louis XVI’s main minister, the mother of Germaine de Staël, and founder of the hospital which now bears her name, this text attempts to show how, at the end of the 18th century, there can be a shift from the scientist to the fantastic language from the...

The Extraordinary Ceremonies of Baroque Catholicism. Edited by Bernard Dompnier A few decades after the Council of Trent, catholic worship began to take on a never before seen splendor. Pageants, music, and temporary decors competed to create a ceremonial splendor that found its peak in the solemnit...

The ceremonial of the ‘joyous entrances’ is well known from the 14th and above all the 20th century, and there are abundant descriptions, written by authors who are attentive to the many details of these ‘noisy and colourful parades’. Moreover, it was at that time that the programme was enriched by...

In this locality of the Nordeste of Brazil, social recognition of consanguine parentage is achieved through benedence, a daily act of allegiance from a person to his direct relatives in the ascending line and to his older consanguins, but also to his sponsor and marraines, allegiance leading to God....

In the oil country (State of Oaxaca, Mexico), the Chikon are home to the elements of the relief. They are operators to think not only about the relationship with the environment, but also about social relations and relations with the other. The Nindo Chikon Tokoxo, a mountain that is confronted with...

Since the criminal trial has been fascinated as much as it frightens, both because of the breadth of the values he protects and the common and spectacular character of his ceremonial and language. However, contemporary criminal justice has attracted public distrust or even mistrust. There is no shor...

While the absence of the public dimension seems to place the epistolary speech in an intimate space, the encroachment of the family dimension forms the character of this privacity. Family members, intimate and distant at the same time, are the privileged interlocutors of the leaning letters; however...

Need under the Monarchy of July, the celebrations in the honour of La Tour d’Auvergne have a success under the Third Republic that never disprove. This success was due to the syncretism of the heroes commemorated, but also to the festivities and ceremonies that borrow from both the post-revolutionar...

Welsh poetry from its earliest days has focussed on the court of the ruler. Descriptions of court celebration had already become a topos of the poetry of the official bards by the time of the Gododdin stanzas of the sixth century. This paper mainly analyzes the poetry of the Gogynfeirdd of the 12th...

Synodal orders can be regarded as an important source for the history of religious norms and practices. They familiarise the clergy with the rules laid down in the Trento concile and relayed both by the Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis de Charles Borromée and by the provincial conciles of the late 16th...

Any political power manifests itself and is in control of coercion and the possibility of dramatising himself in ceremonies designed to integrate and mobilise people for joint action. At the same time, he affirms his legitimacy, his hierarchies and his priorities. Examples of the Protocol’s rites, m...

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Paris, ancient Music in Sorbonne: special issue of the journal Le Jardin de Musique, V/2 (2008), 209 p. 13 contributors

As early as the 16th century, honest stairs appeared to be pieces of bravoure for both prime contractors and developers. They were also important spaces in the European ceremonial, as they made it possible to express, when welcoming representatives of foreign delegations, differences in rank dependi...