The Triumphs of the Defeated

Early Modern Festivals and Messages of Legitimacy. Edited [and introduced] by Peter Davidson and Jill Bepler.

Eleven papers address early modern European festival culture. They describe aspects of festivities or ceremonies organized by individuals or groups whose power base was threatened or non-existent. A central question is the complexity of the term "defeated". The contributions investigate the cultural strategies which minorities exploited. - The papers go back to a conference held at Wolfenbüttel in May 2005, which set out to examine examples of festivities and ceremonies organized by individuals or groups whose power base was threatened or non-existent: refugees, confessional groups, minorities and women. A central question is the complexity of the term "defeated". The contributions investigate the cultural strategies which minorities exploited in order to underpin their claims to legitimacy and retain their identity in the face of a hostile or indifferent environment. -- Aus dem Inhalt: Dietrich Briesemeister: The New World on Display. French Pageantry and the Dramatic Incorporation of Indigenous Brazilians in the 16th century. - Peter Davidson: The Solemnity of the Madonna Vulnerata, Valladolid, 1600. - Jelena Todorovic: Spectacles in the Shadow. 'The Festive Greeting' to Mojsej Putnik as a Semi-Official Propagation of Orthodox Power in the Habsburg Empire. - Jane Stevenson: Oppositional Triumphs. The Exequies of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia. - John E. Moore: Obsequies for James II in S. Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome. - Patricia C. Brückmann: The Triumphs of Maria Clementina. - Marika Keblusek: Entertainment in Exile. Theatrical Performances at the Courts of Margaret Cavendish, Mary Stuart and Elizabeth of Bohemia. - John Morrison and Mary Pryor: Caught in the Spring of the Kirke. For Covenant and King: Charles II, 1650-51. - James Knowles: Our Concealed Solemnity. Alternative Masques in Britain. - Anne Dillon: Public Liturgy Made Private. The Rosary Contraternity in the Life of a Recusant Household. - Alison Shell: St Winifred's Well and its Meaning in post-Reformation British Catholic Literary Culture. 288 Seiten mit 49 teils farbigen Abb., gebunden (Wolfenbütteler Forschungen; Band 116/Herzog August Bibliothek in Kommission bei Harrassowitz Verlag 2007)