Claus Clüver
On Genres: Their Construction, Function, Transformation, and Transposition
1. Ritual and Culture
Jesper Sørensen
Ritual as Action and Symbolic Expression
Katia Gvozdeva
Hobbyhorse Performances: A Ritual Attribute of Carnivalesque Traditions and its Literary Appropiation in Sottie Theatre
Christof L. Diedrichs
Desire of Viewing: A ‘Deluge of Images’ in the Middle Ages
Henrik v. Achen
‘The Passion Clock’ – a Lutheran ‘Way of the Cross’: Reflections on a Popular Motif in Early Eighteenth-Century Scandinavian Religious Imagery
2. Narrative, Genre, and Ritual
Richard Utz
Remembering Ritual Murder: The Anti-Semitic Blood Accusation Narrative in Medieval and Contemporary Cultural Memory
Biörn Tjällén
Ericus Olai’s Chronica regni Gothorum: A Discourse on Dominance
Siglind Bruhn
Rituals and Genres in a Twentieth-Century Operatic Portrayal of a Medieval Saint
Jørgen Bruhn
‘Useful if Treated with Caution’: Carnevalization in Don Quijote
3. Musical Genres
Heinrich W. Schwab
The Phenomenon of Concert Applause: Interactions between Institution, Ritual, and Musical Genre
Lars Berglund
The Aria, the Stylus Melismaticus, and the Holy Communion
Magnar Breivik
Weill and Brecht’s Das Berliner Requiem: A Secular Work in a Sacred Tradition
4. Secular Ritual
Eyolf Østrem
‘Going Through All These Things Twice’: The Ritual of a Bob Dylan Concert
Nils Holger Petersen
Music Practices around Bob Dylan, Medieval Rituals, and Modernity