1. Identify and explain the significance of the three types of entries that Muir discusses.

2. Identify and explain the significance of: the king's two bodies, lever, coucher, lit de justice, ritual pillages, Vacant See, dechristianization, desacralization.

3. Why does Muir refer to government as a "ritual process"?

4. With which theorist--Geertz or Balandier--do you think Muir agrees?

5. What was the purpose of civic rituals? Illustrate your answer with specific examples.

6. Muir writes: "The civic rituals of Venice represented the complete appropriation of liturgical forms and rites to sanctify the ruling regime" (258). What does he mean by this?

7. How, why, and when did regal ceremony change in France?

8. What is the purpose of the Epilogue?