Court Festivals of the European Renaissance

J.R. Mulryne, Elizabeth Goldring

• Contents: Introduction, J.R. Mulryne; Recovering the Past: Early modern European festivals - politics and performance, event and record, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; The Renaissance triumph and its classical inheritance, Margaret M. McGowan; Early Modern France and Festival: Court festival and triumphal entries under Henri II, Richard Cooper; Etiquette and architecture at the court of the last Valois, Monique Chatenet; The politics of festivals at the Court of the last Valois, Nicolas Le Roux; The financing and material organisation of court festivals under Louis XIV, Chantal Grell; Festivals for Charles V: The two coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530, Bernhard Schimmelpfennig; Charles V's journey through France, 1539-40, R. J. Knecht; 'Greater than Zeuxis and Apelles': artists as arguments in the Antwerp entry of 1549, Jochen Becker; Ceremony and Elizabethan England: The funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the politics of Elizabethan festival, Elizabeth Goldring; '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 17th century, Victoria Musvik; The Performance of Festival: Music, Theatre, and Event: Rites of passage: Cosimo I de' Medici and the theatre of death, Iain Fenlon; The role of music in Italian court festivals in the early Renaissance, Nicoletta Guidobaldi; Music festivals at a capital without a court: Spanish Naples from Charles V (1535) to Philip V (1702), Dinko Fabris; Music in Ferrarese festivals: harmony and chaos, Flora Dennis; Checklists for Philostrate, Roger Savage; Festival and Architecture: The theatrum for the entry of Claudia de' Medici and Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere into Urbino, 1621, Peter Davidson; The first temporary Triumphal Arch in Venice (1557), Maximilian L. S. Tondro; Ephemeral ceremonial architecture in Prague, Vienna and Cracow in the 16th and early 17th centuries, Marina Dmitrieva-Einhorn; Index.

'... each essay has been rewritten, annotated and edited to form a coherent collection that significantly advances research and scholarship in the festival culture of Early Modern Europe... a valuable advance in a rich area...' Renaissance Journal 'An extremely useful roadmap to the fullness of the subject... Highly recommended.' Choice '...brimming with intellectual challenges.' Sixteenth Century Journal