The essays in this volume focus on the history of formalized behavior and rituals in Europe, China and Japan. Dismissing the traditional historiography centered on geographical boundaries, it compares
Those who believe that in the Middle Ages the Church controlled the minds and actions of the faithful have never heard of the good old custom of looting the property of a bishop, even the bishop of Ro
Historians and scholars of religion, literature, and art summarize scholarship on the split that created two popes for a generation, one in French Avignon and the other in German-occupied Rome. Their
