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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 p.)
• Disciplina: 394.2694
• Soggetto topico: Festivals - Europe - History; Pageants - Europe - History; Theater - Europe - History; Renaissance
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Social life and customs
• Altri autori: ShewringMargaret
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Waterborne pageants and festivities in the Renaissance
• ISBN: 1-351-87358-X; 1-315-23428-9; 0-7546-9876-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827189603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European festival studies.