Abstract
Until recently one of the most neglected aspects of Western European history in the modern period has been the role of ceremonial in forming and reflecting the development of political thought and institutions. Medieval historians have long used the coronation ceremony extensively as source material, but Ernst H. Kantorowicz was really the first to show scholars how to use ceremonial in understanding the early modern age. The extent to which ceremonial is a significant source of political ideology was clearly demonstrated by Ralph E. Giesey in his The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France, a study which shows how the French acted out crucial political conceptions in the period when the modern state was being born, and which elucidates some of the ways in which the development of ceremonial embraces political thought and acts.
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