Download or read book Ritual and Politics written by Zbigniew Dalewski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the dynastic conflict in medieval Poland this book shows how important it is for comprehension of medieval political culture to consider the complex functions of rituala "as a tool shaping political relations both in the realm of practical politics, and on the level of narrative material by which those relations were described.