J.R. Mulryne - Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe

This fourth volume in the European Festival Studies, 14501700 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.

J.R. (Ronnie) Mulryne is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, UK.

Krista De Jonge is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Leuven.

Pieter Martens is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leuven and the Universit catholique de Louvain.

R.L.M. (Richard) Morris was elected a Senior Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2011 and is now completing doctoral research there.

Series Editors

J.R. Mulryne, University of Warwick, UK

Margaret Shewring, University of Warwick, UK

Margaret M. McGowan, CBE, FBA, University of Sussex, UK

This series, in association with the Society for European Festivals Research, builds on the current surge in interest in the circumstances of European Festivals their political, religious, social, economic and cultural implications as well as the detailed analysis of their performance (including ephemeral architecture, scenography, scripts, music and soundscape, dance, costumes, processions and fireworks) in both indoor and outdoor locations.

Festivals were interdisciplinary and, on occasion, international in scope. They drew on a rich classical heritage and developed a shared pan-European iconography as well as exploiting regional and site-specific features. They played an important part in local politics and the local economy, as well as international negotiations and the conscious presentation of power, sophistication and national identity.

The series, including both essay collections and monographs, seeks to analyse the characteristics of individual festivals as well as to explore generic themes. It draws on a wealth of archival documentary evidence, alongside the resources of galleries and museums, to study the historical, literary, performance and material culture of these extravagant occasions of state.

Edited by
J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge,
Pieter Martens, and R.L.M. Morris

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Sydney Anglo (FBA, FSA, FLSW) is Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, University of Wales. He has published widely on the history of tournament and chivalry, including the following books: The Great Tournament Roll of Westminster (Oxford and London: Oxford University Press, 1968); Chivalry in the Renaissance (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1990); The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000); and LEscrime, la danse, et lart de la guerre (Paris: Bibliothque nationale de France, 2011). His many books also include: Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969, 2nd ed., 1997); Images of Early Tudor Kingship (Seaby, 1992); and Machiavelli the First Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Recent chapters on Renaissance festivals include: The Thames en Fte in Margaret Shewring (ed.), Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J.R. Mulryne (Farnham UK and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 26573.

Katharina Bedenbender studied art history, classical archaeology and cultural management at the universities of Marburg, Berlin and Karlsruhe. In 2010 she was awarded a Master of Arts for a thesis on Architecture and Decoration of the Staircase of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. Since April 2010 she has been working on her PhD project Stairs and Ceremonies in Early Modern Venice under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hans Aurenhammer and Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova. From April 2010 to December 2012 she was supported by PhD scholarships at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, and from April 2013 until March 2014 at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (German Institute for Venetian Studies) in Venice. From 2014 until 2015 she worked as assistant professor for art history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. More recently she has been preparing a post-doctoral project on Apulian architecture.