Occasions of state : early modern European festivals and the negotiation of power / edited by J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, R.L.M. Morris and Pieter Martens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the power of ceremony / J.R. (Ronnie) Mulryne -- The identity of the state : a new approach to festivals in the early modern Holy Roman Empire / R.L.M. Morris -- The Bastille banquet, 22 December 1518 / Robert J. Knecht -- Triumphal arches in court festivals under the new Holy Roman Emperor, Habsburg Ferdinand I / Borbala Gulyas -- Ernest of Bavaria's joyous entry into Liege, 15 June 1581 / Chantal Grell and Robert Halleux -- Valladolid 1605 : a theatre for the peace / Berta Cano-Echevarria and Mark Hutchings -- The shield of ceremony : civic ritual and royal entries in wartime / Fabian Persson -- Les rejouissances de la paix, 20-23 March 1660 : the allegorical transformation of Lyon into a city of peace for the celebration of the Pyrenees Peace Treaty / Nikola Piperkov -- Space for dancing : accommodating performer and spectator in Renaissance France / Margaret M. McGowan -- Ducal display and the contested use of space in late-sixteenth-century Venetian coronation festivals / Maartje van Gelder -- Con grandissima maraviglia : the role of theatrical spaces in the festivals of seventeenth-century Milan / Francesca Barbieri -- Palazzo eguale alle reggie piu superbe : Schloss Eggenberg in Graz and the imperial wedding of 1673 / Paul Schuster -- In public and in private : a study of festival in seventeenth-century Rome / Joanna Norman -- Epilogue : turning tables : from elite to egalitarian banquets in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Paris / Tim White.