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Titre(s) : Princely funerals in Europe, 1400-1700 [Texte imprimé] : commemoration, diplomacy, and political propaganda / edited by Monique Chatenet, Murielle Gaude-Ferragu, and Gérard Sabatier
Publication : Turnhout : Brepols Publishers, DL 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (365 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en coul. ; 26 cm
Collection : European festival studies: 1450-1700
Lien à la collection : European festival studies, 1450-1700
Note(s) : Bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Notes bibliogr. Index
Panorama of royal and princely ceremonial, their evolution from the end of the Middle
Ages to the seventeenth century and their diffusion throughout the Courts of Europe.00Funerals
were among the most extravagant princely ceremonies in Europe. At the end of the Middle
Ages, they were grandiose affairs, carefully recorded, bringing together the emotions
of both Court and People. The Renaissance heightened their effect, adding surprising
elements borrowed from an Antiquity which was largely re-invented. The seventeenth
century introduced ephemeral displays, elaborately constructed castrum doloris, dressed
up with lavish facades and interior designs which transformed these sanctuaries into
theatrical funeral pyres.00Historians, anthropologists, and political scientists have
long been interested in this subject, as can be seen from Ralph Giesey's celebrated
work Le Roi est mort. Art historians have been attracted to the surviving decorations
of tombs and funerary chapels. Yet historians of spectacle and of its ephemera have,
hitherto, somewhat neglected a topic which is - nonetheless - at the heart of their
concerns: with their elaborate settings, their costumes and decors, princely funerals
challenge theatre and opera.00It is within this context that experts from many disciplines
attempt to trace the evolution of funeral ceremonies, which were much less static
than is generally believed; to expose the gifts of the masters of these solemn occasions
(and, indeed, of their predecessors, the heralds) who constantly devised subtle ways
of capturing the attention of spectators and moving their emotions. These essays have
tried to cover not only a wide time spectrum but also to reveal the variety and range
of such ceremonies devised in diverse European Courts as well as unravelling the innovations
which underlay fashions which had multiple international repercussions
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Chatenet, Monique. Éditeur scientifique
Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle. Éditeur scientifique
Sabatier, Gérard (1941-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Rites et cérémonies -- Europe -- Renaissance
Rites et cérémonies -- Europe -- 17e siècle
Rois et souverains -- Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Renaissance
Rois et souverains -- Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-2-503-58743-1. - ISBN 2-503-58743-7 (rel.)
EAN 9782503587431
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467550342
Notice n° :
FRBNF46755034
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