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Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615 - A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions (Paperback)
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Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615 - A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions (Paperback)
Series: European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
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The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons
- in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which
marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and
festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. With
contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines,
this volume provides an all-round view of the sequence of festivals
and events surrounding the dynastic marriages which were agreed
upon in 1612 but not celebrated until 1615 owing to the constant
interruption of festivities by protestant uprisings. The occasion
inspired an extraordinary range of records from exchanges of
political pamphlets, descriptions of festivities, visual materials,
the music of songs and ballets, and the impressions of witnesses
and participants. The study of these remarkable sources shows how a
team of scholars from diverse disciplines can bring into focus
again the creative genius of artists: painters, architects and
costume designers, musicians and poets, experts in equestrianism,
in pyrotechnics, and in the use of symbolic languages. Their
artistic efforts were staged against a background of intense
political diplomacy and continuing civil strife; and yet, the
determination of Marie de Medicis and her advisers and of the Duke
of Lerma brought to a triumphant conclusion negotiations and
spectacular commemorations whose legacy was to inform festival art
throughout European courts for decades. In addition to printed and
manuscript sources, the volume identifies ways of giving future
researchers access to festival texts and studies through
digitization, making the book both an in-depth analysis of a
particular occasion and a blueprint for future engagement with
digital festival resources.
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