Princely funerals in Europe, 1400-1700 : commemoration, diplomacy, and political propaganda

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2021] and ©2021

Subject:

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Europe - History - To 1500
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Europe - History - 16th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Europe - History - 17th century
Kings and rulers - Death and burial

Contributor:

Chatenet, Monique, editor
Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle, editor
Sabatier, Gérard, editor

ISBN:

9782503587431 and 2503587437

Series:

European festival studies

Description:

365 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Fifteenth Century -- The Funerary Rite of the Papacy at the End of the Middle Ages / Agostino Paravicini Bagliani -- T̀he Body of the Prince' : Royal and Princely Funerals in Fifteenth-Century France / Murielle Gaude-Ferragu -- The Funerals of the Dukes of Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century / Alain Marchandisse -- English Royal Funerals in the Fifteenth Century / Joel Burden -- Death and Funerals of German Emperors, Kings, and Princes in the Fifteenth Century / Mikhail Boytsov -- Between Visconti and Sforza : Notes on the Funeral Ceremonies of the Dukes of Milan in the Fifteenth Century / Maria Nadia Covini -- The Funerals of the Dukes of Savoy in the Fifteenth Century : Between Austerity and Splendour / Eva Pibiri -- Sixteenth Century -- Funerary Rites and Mysteries held in Connection with Treatises on Ancient Funerals in Sixteenth-Century France / Marie Madeleine Fontaine -- Royal and Princely French Funerals in the Sixteenth Century / Monique Chatenet -- Double Funerals and Funeral Effigies in Italian States / Giovanni Ricci -- The Funeral of Charles V / Alain Marchandisse -- Seventeenth Century -- The Funerals of Louis XIII and Louis XIV / Gerard Sabatier -- Great Funerals in a Little State : Francesco I and Alfonso IV d'Este at Modena (1659 and 1663) / Giovanni Ricci -- Philip IV of Spain : Projecting Royal Majesty through Funeral Ceremonial / Maria Adelaida Alio Manero -- The Funeral of Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (1632) : Dynastic or Denominational Theatre? / Naima Ghermani -- Staging the Queen's Funeral in Seventeenth-Century Denmark : The Case of Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Liineburg / Birgitte Boggild Johannsen

Summary:

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. Funerals 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. Historians, 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. It 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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

GT3242 .P75 2021

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