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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800198403321

Titolo

Waterborne pageants and festivities in the Renaissance : essays in honour of J.R. Mulryne / / Margaret Shewring, Linda Briggs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-87358-X

1-315-23428-9

0-7546-9876-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Collana

European festival studies, 1450-1700

Altri autori (Persone)

ShewringMargaret

Disciplina

394.2694

Soggetti

Festivals - Europe - History

Pageants - Europe - History

Theater - Europe - History

Renaissance

Europe Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; J. R. (Ronnie) Mulryne; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 French Renaissance Waterborne Festivals in the Sixteenth Century; 2 Lyon: a Centre for Water Celebrations; 3 Parisian Waterborne Festivals from Francis I to Henri III; 4 Water Festivals of the Reign of Charles IX of France; 5 Renaissance Venice and the Sacred-Political Connotations of Waterborne Pageants; 6 Rex Christianissimus Francorum: Themes and Contexts of Henry III's Entry to Venice, 1574

7 Water Policy and Water Festivals: the Case of Pisa Under Ferdinando de' Medici (1588-1609)8 Arbitrary Reality: Fact and Fantasy in the Florentine Naumachia, 1589; 9 Lepanto Revisited: Water-fights and the Turkish Threat in Early Modern Europe (1571-1656); 10 Mary, Queen of Scots' Aquatic Entertainments for the Wedding of John Fleming, Fifth Lord Fleming to Elizabeth Ross, May 1562; 11 Looking Again at Elvetham: An Elizabethan Entertainment Revisited; 12 The Ice Festival in Florence, 1604; 13 The Thames en Fête; 14 Royal River: The Watermen's Company and Pageantry on the Thames



15 The Ambassador's Reception: The Moroccan Embassy to London of 1637-1638 and the Pageantry of Maritime Politics 16 The Savoy Naumachia on the Lake Mont Cenis: A Site-specific Spectacle in the 'Amphitheatre' of the Alps; 17 Naumachiae at the Buen Retiro in Madrid; 18 Waterfront Entertainments in Saxony and Denmark from 1548-1709; 19 Sea Spectacles on Dry Land: The 1580's to the 1690's; 20 Sing Again, Sirena: Translating the Theatrical Virtuosa from Venice to London; 21  Sailing Towards a Kingdom: Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1629-1698)  in Venice in 1685 and 1686; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. 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 imagination