Europa Triumphans
Subtitle: Court And Civic Festivals In Early Modern Europe (Publications of the Modern Hunamities Research Association) (Publications of the Modern ... the Modern Hunamities Research Association)
Contributors: J. R. Mulryne (Editor); Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Editor); Margaret Shewring (Editor); Elizabeth Goldring (Editor); Sarah Knight (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1000
ISBN-13: 9780754638735
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Pageants; Europe - General; Sociology; Holidays (non religious); History: World; Europe; Festivals; Courts and courtiers; History
First sentence: THE RAISON D'ETRE of a publication such as Europa Triumphans is to provide access to early modern court and civic festivals, to give an insight into the variety of political systems and historical contexts that produced them and to point to their artistic forms and cultural legacy.