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Married to the City
The Early Modern Lord Mayor’s Show Between Emblematics and Ritual
Anglistische Forschungen, Bd. 463
2019
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Abstract
‘Married to the City’ offers a fresh take on the interrelationship of emblems and mayoral pageants and a novel investigation into the function of feminine allegorical personifications in the early modern Lord Mayor’s Show, with a special focus on the allegorical nuptials of mayor and city. The study finds that the newly sworn-in mayor’s ritual passage through the streets of London serves not only as a spatial enactment of his rise in status but simultaneously confirms a metaphorical bond of marriage between mayor and city. This naturalizes the prerogative of the mayor and company elites to wield civic power while it also serves to incorporate Londoners into an idea of the city as an integral, bodily entity. This function of personified London (“the speaking female city”) in the Lord Mayor’s Show is anticipated by the late medieval Corpus Christi celebrations which also figure community in terms of body. The study also pays attention to the hitherto neglected yet typical phenomenon of ‘serious punning’ on the names of new mayors in the Lord Mayor’s Show by which new officeholders are ceremonially established in their positions at the heart of the city.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Table of Contents | 7 | ||
| Introduction | 9 | ||
| 1 Structural Differences Between Emblem and Pageant: Representation and Interpretation | 25 | ||
| 1.1 Overcrowded Pageant Stages | 26 | ||
| 1.2 Dramatic Structure and Reciprocity | 35 | ||
| 2 Merchant Heroes and Merchant Monkeys: Themes of Mayoral Pageantry and Popular Emblem Books | 41 | ||
| 2.1 „Time, and Industry attaine the prise“: Chaos and Order | 43 | ||
| 2.2 „Various are the opinions of men“: Harmony and Conflict | 49 | ||
| 2.3 „Ambition workes our shame“: Worldly Aspiration and Religious Renunciation | 63 | ||
| 2.4 „Do not trust prosperity too much“: Wealth as Boon and Burden | 67 | ||
| 2.5 The Progress of „wealthy bottoms“ Contra the Shipwreck of the Soul | 77 | ||
| 2.6 „Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?“: Representations of Ethnic Others in Lord Mayor’s Show and Emblem Book | 89 | ||
| 2.7 „O life, long to the wretched“: Misery and Well-being | 101 | ||
| 3 The Lord Mayor’s Show as Rite of Incorporation | 107 | ||
| 3.1 „To be her Husband for a yeere“: The Marriage of Mayor and City | 109 | ||
| 3.2 Collective Body Imagery in Corpus Christi Observances and the Lord Mayor’s Show | 115 | ||
| 3.3 The Unconquerable City and Female Matter | 125 | ||
| 3.4 The Womb of the City | 144 | ||
| 3.5 Naming and Punning | 161 | ||
| 3.6 Communitas: Inclusive Representations of the City? | 177 | ||
| 4 Conclusion | 195 | ||
| Works Cited | 201 | ||
| Index | 215 | ||
| Backcover | 221 |
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