ABSTRACT
Although the fickleness of the human gaze produced a certain interchangability between the gazer and the gazed upon, processions still established social distinction, and not just gendered ones ... What the prince or civic officials saw as they processed created the ritual performance just as what was radiated from the procession itself did. To be a public figure in the premodern period, whether a priest, bishop, pope, city councillor, prince, or king, was to be seen walking or riding in processions. To be a disenfranchised woman, a layman, citizen, or subject was to watch those who appeared in processions.29
