French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century
French Ceremonial Entries in the Sixteenth Century

Author: Hélène Visentin

Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780772720337

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The articles in this volume use a variety of disciplinary approaches to examine texts and archival documents recording sixteenth-century French ceremonial entries. By their very nature, ceremonial entries require such an approach: they bring together a number of artistic media, including music, architecture, and literature, and a range of political concerns, like international diplomacy and the relations between urban and royal power. Few cultural constructs offer such rich and varied terrain to the student of sixteenth-century France. The primary purpose of this collection is, therefore, to reflect upon salient aspects of ceremonial entries that may help us to understand how this ritual performed its complex and multidimensional cultural, intellectual, historical, and political work in order to cast a new light on French society in the early modern period.

Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe
Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe

Author: J.R. Mulryne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1317168917

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The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe. The volume also includes a transcript of the newly-discovered Register of Lionardo di Zanobi Bartholini, a Florentine merchant, which sets out in detail the expenses for each worker for the possesso (or Entry) of Pope Leo X to Rome in April 1513.

Regency in Sixteenth-century Scotland
Regency in Sixteenth-century Scotland

Author: Amy Blakeway

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1843839806

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A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589

Author: Neil Murphy

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-27

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9004313710

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In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, liberties and customs. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries lay at the heart of how the state functioned in later medieval and Renaissance France.

Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789
Ritual, Ceremony and the Changing Monarchy in France, 1350-1789

Author: Lawrence M. Bryant

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1040242979

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This collection of articles explores changes in images of the French monarchy propagated in ceremonies that townspeople and officials created for their kings. Bryant looks at royal entrées as massive processional and street theaters in which members of the kingdom both discoursed with and exalted the king in a multiplicity of ritual forms, symbolism and public art. These ceremonies personalized the idea of the state as embodied in the king, and they publicized rights and authority, new historical or mythological themes, innovative styles of monumental architecture and art, and theories of ideal and shared government.

Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe
Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe

Author: Katarzyna Kosior

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-18

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3030118487

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Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.

Power and Ceremony in European History
Power and Ceremony in European History

Author: Anna Kalinowska

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 135015220X

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From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European History considers the governing practices, courtly rituals, and expressions of power prevalent in Europe and the Ottoman Empire from the medieval age to the modern era. Bringing together political and art historical approaches to the study of power, this book reveals how ceremonies and rituals - far from simply being ostentatious displays of wealth - served as a primary means of communication between different participants in political and courtly life. It explores how ceremonial culture changed over time and in different regions to provide readers with a nuanced comparative understanding of rituals and ceremonies since the middle ages, showing how such performances were integral to the evolution of the state in Europe. This collection of essays is of immense value to both historians and art historians interested in representations of power and the political culture of Europe from 1450 onwards.

Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook
Footprints of the Dance: An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook

Author: Jennifer Nevile

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9004377735

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Footprints of the Dance — An Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Master’s Notebook by Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master in Brussels. The dance master’s handwritten notebook contains unique material: a canon of dance figures and instructions for an exhibition with a pike; as well as signatures and general descriptions of his students, ballet plots and music associated with dancing. Reproduced for the first time are facsimile images of all the dance-related material, with transcriptions and translations of the ballet plots and instructions for the pike exhibition. The dance master is revealed as an active choreographer and performer, with strong ties to the French court musical establishment, and interested in fireworks and alchemy.

Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance
Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance

Author: Margaret Shewring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 135187358X

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As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, fashion, painting, sculpture, architecture, stage-and personnel-management and urban planning as evinced in spectacles staged on water. Bodies of water in all their variety are explored here: seas, rivers, fountains, lakes and canals and flooded improvised locations within or adjacent to great buildings all provided stages for elaborate and costly performances, utilising the particular qualities of water to reflect light and distort sound. The volume encompasses festivals marking a wide range of occasions from the election of civic officials, the welcome of a monarch, an investiture or coronation, to ambassadorial visits or the arrival of a royal or ducal bride or bridegroom. Often taking the form of re-enactments of naval battles or legendary seaborne quests, these festivals seek to buttress civic and national pride, make claims to mastery over the sea and landscape, and explore the imaginative as well as practical life of performance space which has been a hallmark of the research and publication of this volume's honorand, J.R. (Ronnie) Mulryne.

Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe
Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe

Author: J.R. Mulryne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1317178920

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This fourth volume in the European Festival Studies, 1450–1700 series breaks with precedent in stemming from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the PALATIUM project supported by the European Science Foundation. The volume draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, intellectually-stimulating and beautifully-illustrated account of temporary architecture created for festivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with permanent architecture pressed into service for festival occasions across major European locations including Italian, French, Austrian, Scottish and German. Appealing and vigorous in style, the essays look towards classical sources while evoking political and practical circumstances and intellectual concerns – from re-shaping and re-conceptualizing early sixteenth-century Rome, through providing for the well-being and political allegiance of Medici-era Florentines and exploring the teasing aesthetics of performance at Versailles to accommodating players and spectators in seventeenth-century Paris and at royal and ducal events for the Habsburg, French and English crowns. The volume is unique in its field in the diversity of its topics and the range of its scholarship and fascinating in its account of the intellectual and political life of Early Modern Europe.