Court Festivals of the European Renaissance

Festivals were occasions to which Renaissance European courts devoted lavish resources. They marked all manner of state events and were charged with political, economic and cultural significance. The essays in this volume, by an international group of contributors, explore all of these aspects of court festivals and address occasions and topics particular to countries from England to Russia, Italy, France and Germany. They illustrate that festivals resulted both in the creation of high art, as in the work of Rubens, but most often in more emphemeral workmanship. Performances could be magnificent, though they were also fallible and occasionally disastrous. This collection demonstrates that these festivals provide fascinating material for all students of the political and artistic culture of the European Renaissance.

ISBN 0754606287   Pages 424 ISBN13 9780754606284 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Weight (grammes) 789 Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited   Published in Aldershot Format Hardback   Series editor Naphy, William G. (University of Aberdeen), Roberts, Penny (University of Warwick) Publication date 26 Nov 2002   Series title Early Modern History S. Non-book description xxii, 401 p. :   Height (mm) 165 Library of Congress GT3530.C68   Width (mm) 242 DEWEY 791.62094   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of Figures
		Notes on Contributors
		Acknowledgements
		List of Abbreviations
		Introduction by J. R. Mulryne		1
Pt. I		Recovering the Past
1		Early Modern European Festivals - Politics and Performance, Event and Record by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly		15
2		The Renaissance Triumph and its Classical Heritage by Margaret M. McGowan		26
Pt. II		Early Modern France and Festival
3		Court Festival and Triumphal Entries under Henri II by Richard Cooper		51
4		Etiquette and Architecture at the Court of the Last Valois by Monique Chatenet		76
5		The Politics of Festivals at the Court of the Last Valois by Nicolas Le Roux		101
6		The Financing and Material Organization of Court Festivals under Louis XIV by Chantal Grell		118
Pt. III		Festivals for Charles V
7		The Two Coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530 by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig		137
8		Charles V's Journey through France, 1539-40 by R. J. Knecht		153
9		'Greater than Zeuxis and Apelles': Artists as Arguments in the Antwerp Entry of 1549 by Jochen Becker		171
Pt. IV		Ceremony and Elizabethan England
10		The Funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the Politics of Elizabethan Festival by Elizabeth Goldring		199
11		'And the King of Barbary's Envoy Had to Stand in the Yard': The Perception of Elizabethan Court Festivals in Russia at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century by Victoria Musvik		225
Pt. V		The Performance of Festival: Music, Theatre and Event
12		Rites of Passage: Cosimo I de' Medici and the Theatre of Death by Iain Fenlon		243
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