Bruno Boute, PhD in History (2003), Catholic University of Leuven, is a researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte, Germany. He publishes on religious history, history of the papacy, and the history of universities in Early Modern EuropeThomas Småberg, PhD in History, (2004), Göteborg University, is Lecturer in History and History Teaching at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published on social networks and friendship in the Middle Ages, and is currently conducting research on Swedish medieval ritual and gender.

• Note on ContributorsList of FiguresIntroduction: Devising Order. Socioreligious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of PracticeBruno Boute and Thomas SmåbergThe Priest, the Sexton, and the Weaver: A Flemish Dinner Play Performing Biblical Theology (c. 1539-1565)Wim FrançoisDeath as the Guest of Honour: The Social Constructions of Funeral Rites in Southern Sweden, 1880-1949Anna StarkGiving Public Space a Face: the Agency of Monuments and Portraits, Thailand and the Netherlands comparedIrene StengsMaking space for performativity: publics, powers, and places in a multi-register town festival (Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire)Karel ArnautPlace, Power, and Prophecy: Ritual Space and Speech among the Yucatec Maya from Colonial Time to Present Time.Bodil Liljefors PerssonReinventing the apostolic tradition: transition and appropriation in the medieval commemoration of the apostlesEls RoseAffirming Papal Supremacy – Shaping Catholicism: The Readjustment of Symbolic Resources at the Post-Trent Roman Court.Julia ZunckelThe Ritual Battle of Tournament: Tornej, Dust, and Bohord in Medieval Sweden ca. 1250-1320Thomas SmåbergEuropean and Chinese Controversies over Rituals: A Seventeenth-Century Genealogy of Chinese ReligionEugenio MenegonEngineering the Sacred: Perspectives for Research into Sacramental Practice and Conflicts over Sacraments in the seventeenth CenturyBruno BouteThe Jesuit ordering: In between the imaginative force of the art of memory and the organizational power of accounting practicesPaolo QuattroneConcluding Remarks: Rituality, performativity, history, and religionJoris Van EijnattenBibliographyList of Referenced Authors