Table of Contents

Preface
1: The Idea of the Civic Triumph
2: The Christmas King
3: The Civic Triumph as Royal Epiphany
4: Third Advent: Grace in this Life and Afterward Glory
5: Fourth Advent: The Civic Triumph as Royal Apocalypse
6: The Queen's Advent
Bibliography
Index

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Reviews

`The general indext has been thoughfully arranged, enhancing the book's value for reference.'
Peter Happe, Medium Aevum, LXIX.
`Gordon Kipling's book is an outstanding contribution to the scholarship of medieval theatre, even though the subject matter ... is not a purely dramatic form.'
Peter Happe, Medium Aevum, LXIX.
`Gordon Kipling's immensely learned and readable study... Kipling's copious evidence that the civic triumph provided an occasion for collective enjoyment and an assertion of communal identity will pique the interest of all scholars of medieval popular culture, but his book also invites scholars to regard these events as complicated dramatic spectacles. Thus iconographers, liturgical scholars, and scholars of early European theater will savor Kipling's
concise, illuminating, lucid prose and will appreciate the copious illustrations of rare images.'
Margaret Rose Jaster, Albion