Court festivals of the European Renaissance : art, politics, and performance

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Early modern European festivals / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- The Renaissance triumph and its classical heritage / Margaret M. McGowan -- Court festival and triumphal entries under Henri II / Richard Cooper -- Etiquette and architecture at the court of Les Valois / Monique Chatenet -- The politics of festivals at the court of the last Valois / Nicolas Le Roux -- The financing and material organization of court festivals under Louis XIV / Chantal Grell -- The two coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530 / Bernard 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 -- 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 seventeenth century / Victoria Musvik -- 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 -- Musical 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 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 sixteenth and early seveneteenth centuries / Marina Dmitrieva-Einhorn