This book offers an inside into the modes of using ritual as an affective tool of political action in the Middle Ages - both in the practice of political entreprising, and on the level of narrative information about that practice - and then reflects about the nature of the relationship between the reality of the written account and the reality of the practical activities described in it. It demonstrates the ways in which the reality of narrative account and the reality of practice - ritual - in - text and ritual - in performance - overlaid and interlaced one another, and exercised a mutual impact, thereby jointly creating a framework within which, in the earlier and high Middle Ages, political activity took place.