The rites of the siege. Some cards from the chronicles of late medieval Italy
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/135Keywords:
Middle Ages, 13th-15th Century, Communal Town, SiegeAbstract
No different from other war tactics, the siege makes up an experience that multiplies or depresses the self consciousness of a community. Through a non-systematic analysis of a certain number of chronicle sources (Italian, written in Italian or Latin) of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth century, the essay exemplifies the actions, rich with symbolic values, that stimulates such self consciousness through the mocking or derision of the siege or the besieger (realised through the ostentation or the throwing of an object or a body), in other words through resorting to a religious medium.
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