ABSTRACT
This sixth volume in the European Festival Studies series stems from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) between the Society for European Festivals Research and the European Science Foundation’s PALATIUM project. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, a Europe-wide group of early-career and experienced academics provides a unique account of spectacular occasions of state which influenced the political, social and cultural lives of contemporary societies. International pan-European turbulence associated with post-Reformation religious conflict supplies the context within which the book explores how the period’s rulers and élite families competed for power – in a forecast of today’s divided world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |18 pages
Introduction
part I|122 pages
Performing diplomacy
chapter 1|20 pages
The identity of the state
chapter 7|20 pages
Les Réjouissances de la Paix, 20–23 March 1660
part 2|108 pages
Space and occasional performance
chapter 10|20 pages
Con grandissima maraviglia
chapter 11|13 pages
Palazzo eguale alle Reggie più superbe
part |17 pages
Epilogue