Table of Contents. Section I: Ritual and Violence Edited by Margo Kitts. Section II: Rituals of Power and Consent Edited by Bernd Schneidmüller

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1 Section I: Ritual and Violence Edited by Margo Kitts Margo Kitts Introductory Comments: Panel on Ritual and Violence 3 Margo Kitts Poinē as a Ritual Leitmotif in the Iliad 7 Scott Noegel The Ritual Use of Linguistic and Textual Violence in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East 33 Jarrod L. Whitaker Empowering Men Ritually in Ancient India 47 Peter Schalk Memorialisation of Martyrs in the Tamiḻ Resistance Movement of Īḻam/Laṃkā 55 Werner Binder Ritual Dynamics and Torture: The Performance of Violence and Humiliation at the Abu Ghraib Prison 75 Alexandra Argenti The Fear of the Sorcerer: Finding a Peaceful Moment for a Sacrifice in Southern Sri Lanka 105 Section II: Rituals of Power and Consent Edited by Bernd Schneidmüller Hans Vorländer Verfassungen und Rituale in Vormoderne und Moderne 135 Philippe Buc Religion, Coercion, and Violence in Medieval Rituals 149

2 VI Wojciech Fałkowski The Humility and Humiliation of the King Rituals and Emotions 163 Apostolos Spanos Imperial Sanctity and Politico-Ecclesiastical Propaganda in Byzantium (Ninth Fifteenth Century) 197 Joachim Friedrich Quack Political Rituals: Sense and Nonsense of a Term and its Application to Ancient Egypt 215 Peter Van Nuffelen Beyond Bureaucracy: Ritual Mediation in Late Antiquity 231 Veit Rosenberger Strange Signs, Divine Wrath, and the Dynamics of Rituals: The Expiation of Prodigies in the Roman Republic 247 Paul Töbelmann The Limits of Ritual: Mistakes and Misconceptions, Lies and Betrayals at Peace Conferences in Fifteenth Century France 261 Peter Seele Is There an Economic Benefit in Participating in Rituals? An Institutional Economics Analysis of Transaction Costs and Institutional Stability 277 Daniel Schläppi Politische Riten, Ämterkauf und geschmierte Plebiszite: Ritualisierter Ressourcentransfer in der Alten Eidgenossenschaft (17. und 18. Jahrhundert) 293 Angelo Torre Ritual and Jurisdiction in Northern Italy (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) 317

3 State, Power, and Violence VII Section III: Usurping Ritual Edited by Gerald Schwedler and Eleni Tounta Gerald Schwedler and Eleni Tounta Usurping Rituals: The Correlation between Formalised Repetitive Behaviour and Legitimacy 349 Gerald Schwedler Usurpation: Term and Concept A Missing Entry in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe 361 Fabrice De Backer Fragmentation of the Enemy in the Ancient Near East during the Neo-Assyrian Period 393 Fabian Goldbeck and Patrizia Arena Salutationes in Republican and Imperial Rome: Development, Functions and Usurpations of the Ritual 413 Eleni Tounta Usurpation, Acceptance and Legitimacy in Medieval Europe: An Analysis of the Dynamic Relations between Ritual Structure and Political Power 447 Georg Gresser Usurping Space Usurping Ritual: Early Medieval Synods in Comparison 475 Herrmann Kamp New Masters and Old Rituals: Edward I, Robert the Bruce, Philip the Fair and the Role of Rituals in Conquest 485 Christian Jaser Usurping the Spiritual Sword: Performative and Literary Alienations of Ritual Excommunication 505 Christoph Dartmann The Usurpator in the City: Rituals of Power in Northern Italian City-States 531 Marian Füssel Rituals in Crisis? The Dynamics of German Academic Ritual in the Age of Enlightenment 543

4 VIII Susan Richter The Prussian Royal Coronation An Usurpation of Ceremonial? 561 Cord Arendes Rituals in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships: Jean-Bédel Bokassa and his Central African Empire, Section IV: State and Ritual in India Edited by Hermann Kulke and Uwe Skoda Hermann Kulke Ritual Sovereignty and Ritual Policy: Some Historiographic Reflections 603 B. D. Chattopadhyaya Festivals as Ritual: An Exploration into the Convergence of Rituals and the State in Early India 627 Tilman Frasch Buddha s Tooth Relic: Contesting Rituals and the Early State in Sri Lanka 647 Bhairabi Prasad Sahu Rituals, Royalty and Rajya in Early Medieval Eastern India 665 Ulrike Teuscher Creating Ritual Structure for a Kingdom: The Case of Medieval Mewar 683 G.S.L. Devra Evolution of Antagonistic Rituals in Pre-modern Societies in Asia: A Case Study of Śaka and Jāuhar 707 Chandi Prasad Nanda Rethinking Politico-Ritual States : Sitting on the Lap of a Bhuiyan: Coronation Ceremonies in Keonjhar 725 Biswamoy Pati The Diverse Implications of Legitimacy: Rituals, State and the Common People in Colonial Orissa, s 745

5 State, Power, and Violence IX Margret Frenz Mahabali Returns to Kerala: Rituals of Sovereignty in Past and Present 763 Uwe Skoda State Rituals after the Abolition of the State: Dossehra Rituals in Bonai/Orissa before and after Merger 783 Abstracts 813