Les "Entrées royales" in Transylvania and the Banat (18th-19th century). Discourse and Representation

Royal visits focalized Romanian realities in the 18th-19th centuries. Therefore their significance goes beyond the reconstructive and systematic historiographic interest. Such events have been studied from an anthropological, historical and cultural perspective (the spectacle, the game and feasts in general.)
 Royal symbols are resemantised in these royal visits. They become a symbolic replacement of the king, a standard worth imitating, acquiring a political overdetermination, symbolising imperial victory together with the assertion of dynasticism and authoritarianism, converging towards the myth of the "good king".

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