Ritual dynamics: Mayor making in Early Modern Norwich

Ezzy, Douglas, Easthope, Gary and Morgan, Victor (2009) Ritual dynamics: Mayor making in Early Modern Norwich. Journal of Historical Sociology, 22 (3). pp. 396-419. ISSN 1467-6443

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Abstract

Through a detailed analysis of a Guild Day ceremony in early modern England we demonstrate that liminal points in this ritual are interrelated to form a “pattern” or “dance” of liminal pulsations. We argue it is the felt necessity, on the part of participants, to complete that pattern that provides a dynamic to any ritual event. It impels participants to continue the ritual to its conclusion and leads them to resist any interference with the “flow” of the ritual. “Flow”, we assert, is thus both an interior state of participants and an exterior social characteristic of a ritual. It is created by the structuring of liminal points in a ritual, the liminal pulsations, but it achieves its dynamic by affecting the interior states of participants so that they feel impelled to “close off” the ritual and complete it.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:58
Last Modified:	11 Jan 2024 01:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01355.x

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