Die Begräbnisfeierlichkeiten nach dem Tod Ferdinands I. und seiner Söhne

• Authors: Bůžek Václav

Title variants

EN

Funeral Rites After the Death of Ferdinand I and his Sons

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

This study considers on the basis of comparative research on written, visual and material sources of interpretations of the symbolic meaning of the means used to represent Ferdinand I and his sons Maximilian II, Charles of Styria, and Ferdinand of Tyrol, during public rituals at their funerals in Vienna, Prague, Graz, and Innsbruck. In methodological terms it rests largely on the Kantorowicz concept of the King’s Two Bodies.

Keywords

EN

Ferdinand I; Maximilian II; Charles of Styria; Ferdinand II of Tyrol; ritual; funeral procession; tomb decoration; Christian knight; memory of the ruler’s Social Body

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historie – Otázky – Problémy (History, Issues, Problems)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 260-273

Contributors

author

Bůžek Václav

• director of Historical Institute of the Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic