LEADER 03777nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910463890003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89899-3 010 $a0-8122-0663-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206630 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046409 035 $a(OCoLC)824522193 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642147 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11422818 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10566258 035 $a(PQKB)11634525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441812 035 $a(OCoLC)794700787 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17545 035 $a(DE-B1597)449545 035 $a(OCoLC)979724110 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206630 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441812 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642147 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421149 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046409 100 $a20111102d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShame and honor$b[electronic resource] $ea vulgar history of the Order of the Garter /$fStephanie Trigg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2341-1 311 $a0-8122-4391-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-311) and index. 327 $apt. I. Ritual histories -- pt. II. Ritual practices -- pt. III. Ritual modernities. 330 $a"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."-HRH Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghFounded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England and an institution that looks proudly back to its medieval origins. But what does the annual Garter procession of modern princes and politicians decked out in velvets and silks have to do with fourteenth-century institutions? And did the Order, in any event, actually originate in the wardrobe malfunction of the traditional story, when Edward held up his mistress's dropped garter for all to see and declared it to be a mark of honor rather than shame? Or is this tale of the Order's beginning nothing more than a vulgar myth?With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter. She explores the Order's attempts to reform and modernize itself, even as it holds onto an ambivalent relationship to its medieval past. She revisits those moments in British history when the Garter has taken on new or increased importance and explores a long tradition of amusement and embarrassment over its formal processions and elaborate costumes. Revisiting the myth of the dropped garter itself, she asks what it can tell us about our desire to seek the hidden sexual history behind so venerable an institution.Grounded in archival detail and combining historical method with reception and cultural studies, Shame and Honor untangles 650 years of fact, fiction, ritual, and reinvention. 606 $aOrders of knighthood and chivalry$zGreat Britain$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOrders of knighthood and chivalry$xHistory. 676 $a929.7/10941 700 $aTrigg$b Stephanie$01030149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463890003321 996 $aShame and honor$92446939 997 $aUNINA