Writing royal entries in early modern Europe
By: edited by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and Jean Andrews, with Marie-France Wagner
Series: Early European research -- v. 3; Early European research -- v. 3.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9782503536026
Subjects: Ceremonial entries; Sources; History; Historiography; Rites and ceremonies in literature; Reportage literature; History and criticism
Description: "Royal and ducal entries into major cities were an important aspect of political life in Renaissance and early modern Europe and the New World. The festivities provided an opportunity for the municipal authorities to show off their wealth, learning, political nous, and aspiration while allowing writers, painters, sculptors, architects, set designers, scene painters, dancers, musicians, choreographers, and others an unparalleled opportunity to showcase their wares. The essays in this volume cover a range of royal and ducal entries, some well documented and well known, others less so, some barely documented at all. Each essay tackles an aspect of the business of putting together an entry festivity, discusses a particular difficulty posed for the contemporary scholar by the extant documentation, or offers a consideration of issues central to the development of this type of festivity or the literature associated with it. The entries and royal progresses of members of the Habsburg, Medici, Valois, Bourbon, and Tudor dynasties are examined, as are the festivities commissioned and mounted by powerful and strategically important cities such as Berlin, Antwerp, Paris, Florence, London, and Mexico City to welcome these great personages or their marginally less great ducal representatives"--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English and French.
Table of contents: title: The material form and the function of printed accounts of Henri II's triumphal entries (1547-51) / Hélène Visentin; title: Le Statut textuel de l'entrée royale ou solennelle sous le règne d'Henri IV : le cas particulier de l'entrée du roi à Moulins en 1595 / Marie-France Wagner; title: Les Inscriptions poétiques du livret de Jacques de Cahaignes et l'éloge latin du duc de Joyeuse lors de son entrée solennelle à Caen (1583) / John Nassichuk; title: Travelling with a queen : the journey of Margaret of Austria (1598-99) between evidence and reconstruction / Maria Ines Aliverti; title: (Failed) early modern Madrid festival book publication projects : between civic and court representation / David Sánchez Cano; title: Images of co monarchy in the London entry of Philip and Mary (1554) / Alexander Samson; title: Florentine festivals for the entry of Archduke Leopold V of Austria in 1618 / Sara Mamone and Caterina Pagnini; title: French royal entries and the antique (1515-65) / Richard Cooper; title: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora's depiction of the Aztec emperors for the viceregal entry into Mexico City of 1680 / Jean Andrews; title: The return of the elector as king : Johann von Besser's record of the Berlin entry in May 1701 of elector Friedrich III as Friedrich I, King in Prussia / Sara Smart; title: The politics of translation : Arthur Golding's account of the Duke of Anjou's entry into Antwerp (1582) / Elizabeth Goldring; title: A question of authenticity : Pierre Matthieu, creator of entries and historiographer royal / Margaret M. McGowan; title: Querelle littéraire sur le motif du troisième arc de triomphe érigé pour l'entrée des ducs à Aix-en-Provence en 1701 / Claire Latraverse; title: Malaise dans la cérémonie : Marie de Médicis à Marseille / Daniel Vaillancourt; title: Le Theatre des bons Engins de Guillaume de La Perrière : une 'écriture' de l'entrée de Marguerite de Navarre à Toulouse en 1535 / Claudie Balavoine; title: From object of curiosity to subject of conversation : Mlle de Scudéry and the Paris entry of Louis XIV and Maria Teresa (1660) / Marie-Claude Canova-Green; title: L'Entrée royale dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Mme de Villedieu / Nobuko Akiyama; title: Entries and festivals in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence as precedents for court and theatre in England (1600-20) / J.R. Mulryne; title: Le Motif de l'entrée solennelle dans l'oeuvre d'Agrippa d'Aubigné / Louise Frappier; title: Entrées farcesques et burlesques : le politique travesti / Claudine Nédelec.