Celebrations at Court

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Ephemeral Objects, Materials, and Machinery in the Early Modern Period

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A rich and immersive insight into the spectacular courtly festival culture of 16th and 17th century Europe. Court celebrations constituted elaborate and flamboyant spectacles intended to showcase cultural sophistication, military power, and technical expertise. Through carefully staged displays of marvel, feast, and horror, they were performative... Read More

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A rich and immersive insight into the spectacular courtly festival culture of 16th and 17th century Europe

Description

A rich and immersive insight into the spectacular courtly festival culture of 16th and 17th century Europe.

Court celebrations constituted elaborate and flamboyant spectacles intended to showcase cultural sophistication, military power, and technical expertise. Through carefully staged displays of marvel, feast, and horror, they were performative articulations of power. By reiterating local traditions, such events reinforced and consolidated local belonging. Addressed both to rival rulers and to society at large, these celebrations functioned as strategic demonstrations of dynastic legitimacy and national abundance—economically, intellectually, and in terms of artisanal production.

Through thirteen richly illustrated chapters, this book maps key historical celebrations and the political circumstances surrounding them, while drawing on a diverse range of written sources—from pyrotechnics manuals to cookery books—to emphasize the material culture and technological foundations behind these celebrations. Celebrations at Court situates local European material culture within broader, transcultural contexts and offers new insights into the history of ideas and mentalities of the period.

Distributed for Aarhus University Press.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788772196732

Publisher: Aarhus University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2026

Country: Denmark

Imprint: Aarhus University Press

Illustration: 140

Contributors:

Edited by Maria Fabricius Hansen
Edited by Jesper Svenningsen
Edited by Anne H. Christensen
Edited by Lisbet Tarp

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 372

Collections

Arts & Culture Global History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Anne Haack Christensen is a PhD and painting conservator at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), with expertise in early modern art production. Maria Fabricius Hansen is Professor of Art History at the University of Copenhagen and author of the award-winning The Art of Transformation (2018). Lisbet Tarp is Associate Professor of Art History at Aarhus University, specializing in early modern Europe. Jesper Svenningsen is Senior Researcher at the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), focusing on Danish collecting culture and the art market. With contributions from Mara R. Wade, Inmaculada Rodriguez Moya and Victor Minguez Cornelles, Konrad Krčal, Pamela H. Smith, Tianna Helena Uchacz, Sophie Pitman, Tillmann Taape and Colin Debuiche, Simon Werrett, Tamar Cholcman, Cristiano Zanetti, F. M. Gage, Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Deborah L. Krohn, Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Anders Kirk Borggaard, Elaine Tierney.