The Dangers of Ritual
Philippe Buc
Preface vii Abbreviations ix INTRODUCTION 1 PART I: Late Antique and Early Medieval Narratives 13 CHAPTER ONE: Writing Ottonian Hegemony: Good Rituals Bad in Liudprand of Cremona TWO: Ritual Consensus Violence: Texts Events Ninth-Century Carolingian Political Culture 15 THREE: Rites Saints Kings: Transgression the Works Gregory Tours 88 FOUR: The Matrix: Martyrdom 123 II: From Theology to Social Sciences ca. 1500-ca. 1970 159 FIVE: Rites, Rituals, Order, 1800 164 SIX: History Sciences, 1800-ca. 203 SEVEN: Epilogue 248 Index 263 Bibliography for this book can be found its entirety on Princeton University Press website www.pup.princeton.edu/biblios/buc.
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