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Triumphal entries and festivals in early modern Scotland : performing spaces / by Giovanna Guidicini.
Van Pelt Library GT4045.A2 G85 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guidicini, Giovanna, author.
- Series:
- European festival studies
- European festival studies, 1450-1700
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Festivals--Scotland--History--15th century.
- Festivals.
- Festivals--Scotland--History--16th century.
- Festivals--Scotland--History--17th century.
- Festivals--Scotland--History--18th century.
- Pageants--Scotland--History--15th century.
- Pageants.
- Pageants--Scotland--History--16th century.
- Pageants--Scotland--History--17th century.
- Pageants--Scotland--History--18th century.
- Parades--Scotland--History--15th century.
- Parades.
- Parades--Scotland--History--16th century.
- Parades--Scotland--History--17th century.
- Parades--Scotland--History--18th century.
- History.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book offers unprecedented insights into the richness of Scottish culture in the early modern period, studying triumphal entries - that is, processional civic welcomes offered to royal guests - staged in Edinburgh in the period between 1500 and the English Civil War. Based on a comprehensive and imaginative analysis of the written and archival sources available for these events, it also brings renewed attention to the country's artistic, architectural, and literary traditions. The analysis of comparable events staged in England and continental Europe - in France, the Italian peninsula, and the Low Countries - helps frame Scotland's distinctiveness within a network of international connections. The book explores how the urban space of early modern Edinburgh was employed with changing fortunes to address potentially explosive power dynamics, expressed by civic and royal, secular and religious (pre and post Reformation), Scottish and post-1603 pan-British worldviews. Scottish triumphal culture is presented as profoundly embedded in the urban context within which it is set, rich in politicised rituals of negotiation and mutual acknowledgement, and visually vibrant through temporary structures, decorations, pageants, and costumed performers. This book offers a well-rounded answer to the still relevant question of Scottish identity, and how identity and power - individual, communal, national, royal - can be performed through active engagement with civic space.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. I Introduction to Edinburgh as a Ceremonial City
- ch. II The Outdoors: Wilderness and Taming Nature
- Extramural Nature and Edinburgh's Surroundings
- Triumphal Entries: Nature and the Outdoors
- Burgh's Rights: The Otherness of Outside Space
- Addressing Local and International Views of Scottish Nature
- The Triumphal Route: The Role of Nature
- Wild Men and Highlanders in Scottish Ceremonies
- Extramural Sites and the Use of Chivalric Language
- ch. III The West Port: The Meeting of Royal and Civic Identities
- The West Port
- Triumphal Entries: Gateways and Urban Borders
- Burghs Rights: Defence and Identity
- The Triumphal Route: Approaching the West Port
- Absent Royal Residences: Hie Castle and Holyrood Palace
- Ceremonies of Negotiation and Gift-Giving
- Thresholds, Fabric, and Spaces of Portable Royalty
- ch. IV The Overbow: Discovering and Creating History
- The Overbow
- The Triumphal Route: A Tour through History
- Romanitas in Scottish Triumphal Entries
- Representing an Alternative Past
- The Legitimizing Power of Shared History
- ch. V The Butter Tron: Representing a Mercantile Community
- The Butter Tron
- Triumphal Entries: Representing Local Economy
- Burgh's Rights: Producing and Trading
- The Triumphal Route: Visiting a Productive Community
- The Burgh as Organizer and Host
- Inhabiting the Productive Space: Identity during Triumphal Entries
- Spectators: Inclusion and Exclusion
- ch. VI The Tolbooth, St Giles Kirk, and the Market Cross: Displaying and Defending Government and Authority
- The Tolbooth, St Giles Kirk, and the Market Cross
- Triumphal Entries: The Role of Core Buildings
- Burgh's Rights: Secular and Religious Self-Determination
- Tolbooth and Representations of Virtuous Judgement
- St Giles Kirk and Religious Identities
- The Triumphal Route: Addressing Stability and Change
- Market Cross: Concord, Abundance, and Merriment
- ch. VII The Salt Tron: Some Iconographic Considerations
- The Salt Tron
- The Triumphal Route: Selecting Iconographies
- The European Dimension of Scottish Triumphal Language
- Triumphal Entries and Courtly Ceremonies
- Triumphal Language in the Context of Scotland's Artistic Production
- ch. VIII The Netherbow: Expectations and Outcomes
- The Netherbow
- Farewells and Predictions at the Exit Gateway
- The Triumphal Route: Visiting Extramural Communities
- Non-Royal Processions and the Urban Spaces
- Welcoming Monarchs in Edinburgh after 1633.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9782503585413
- 2503585418
- OCLC:
- 1151888477
- Publisher Number:
- 9782503585413
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