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Civic Ritual, Space and Imagination : Coronation of the Icon from Brno (1736)

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MALÝ Tomáš

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Ritualizing the City. Collective Performances as Aspects of Urban Construction from Constantine to Mao
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Faculty of Arts

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Field History
Keywords Piety; ritual; icon; coronation; Brno; 1736
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Description The study deals with the solemn coronation of the so called Icon from Brno in 1736. Under perspective of historical anthropology and using the example of the handling of a sacred image, I seek to understand the meanings which contemporary people ascribed to the image as such and to the whole of the coronation celebrations, understood as a ritual. I maintain that the imagination linked to several phenomena within the coronation celebrations had a fundamental significance for the manner of construing religious/social space in a given place and time.
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