Chapter 11 - Lucinda Dean
Introduction to Ritual & Representation
In many respects, the role and function of monarchy, where it survives, for the twenty-first-century social media generation has changed significantly from its pre-modern roots. Moreover, the ritualised and representative means through which monarchy communicates to its variant publics has had to adapt and develop as the institution has risen, fallen and been resurrected. What was expected of pre-modern monarchs, for example, might appear a far cry from what modern audiences expect from the Windsors in the twenty-first century. Yet, similarities emerge over time and place, as the chapters in this section consider. One of these is the enduring need to provide a show for the ‘people’ – albeit that the show, audience and content are variable. Ritual and representation of monarchy was and is not an ‘empty display’ nor yet a light-hearted sideshow to political action. This introduction offers a brief outline of existing research in the area of monarchical ritual and representation, before exploring the twelve new case studies in the section which engage with the intricacies of the constant process of reinvention, renewal, and realignment of monarchy through a multitude of media and ritual forms across geographies and chronologies. To avoid adherence to strict chronological progression and geographical groupings, these chapters are arranged, as much as is possible, to reveal the fluidity and continuities through time and space. Herein ritual and representation are interlocked and organically connected: from religious and pious ritual, via rituals of national identity, travel and diplomacy, perceptions of monarchy, use of rhetoric, the treatment of royal bodies, to the material representations of monarchy.
By Lucinda Dean
Lucinda Dean
Dr Lucy Dean is lecturer at the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands (since November 2016) and is a specialist in late medieval and early modern ritual and ceremony of the Scottish monarchy with a keen interest in material culture. She is currently in the final throws of revising her AHRC-funded doctoral research for a monograph: Death and the Royal Succession: Scottish Funerals, Coronations and Weddings, c.1214–1543 (in preparation for St Andrews Scottish History Series, Boydell and Brewer). She has published a number of articles and book chapters on connected themes, and co-edited a volume on Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles (Routledge, 2016). She is always looking for meaningful ways of engaging the public with history, and Scottish history particularly, working currently and previously with bodies such as Historic Environment Scotland (HES), Royal Collections Trust (Holyrood), and Culture Perth and Kinross. This includes a research commission for HES on the royal honours of Scotland, and she is currently a co-investigator on the Perth Charterhouse Project. Her new research explores manhood, masculinity and coming of age of the later Stewart kings, with a case study of James V as forerunner to a wider comparative analysis project, and she is working to publish research on baptism in the late medieval and early modern eras (with a particular interest in the role and choice of godparents).
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Related Chapters
Elena Woodacre: Understanding the Mechanisms of Monarchy (See Chapter 1)
Chris Jones: Introduction (See Chapter 2)
Russell Martin: Introduction (See Chapter 24)
Zita Rohr: Introduction (See Chapter 35)