ABSTRACT

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe. The volume also includes a transcript of the newly-discovered Register of Lionardo di Zanobi Bartholini, a Florentine merchant, which sets out in detail the expenses for each worker for the possesso (or Entry) of Pope Leo X to Rome in April 1513.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Ceremony and the Iconography of Power

chapter 3|24 pages

Henri IV as Architect and Restorer of the State

His Entry into Rouen, 16 October 1596

chapter 5|14 pages

‘Entrate, onoranze, esequie et altre cose' 1

The Book of Ceremonies of Francesco Tongiarini (1536–1612)

chapter 6|22 pages

Re-moulding the City

The Roman possessi in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

chapter 7|14 pages

Theories of Decorum

Music and the Italian Renaissance Entry

chapter 11|24 pages

The Iconography of Populism

Waterborne Entries to London for Anne Boleyn (1533), Catherine of Braganza (1662) and Elizabeth II (2012)

chapter 12|22 pages

The Golden Fleece of the London Drapers' Company

Politics and Iconography in Early Modern Lord Mayor's Shows

chapter 13|30 pages

Enter the Alien

Foreign Consorts and their Royal Entries into Scottish Cities, c. 1449 – 1590