The duality of service: between honour and humiliation, between primary and secondary functions
This chapter revisits a celebrated act of court ritual: the gesture of handing the king his chemise as he rose each morning. Re-contextualizing this gesture thematically, socially, chronologically, and functionally, I underscore the duality of such ‘honourable service’ and the degree to which it was...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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