Celebrating the City
Making Festivals in Early Modern London and Paris
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2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7995-1 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7995-1 (ISBN)
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This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of political history, sheds new light on how political publics were formed in early modern European cities. -- .
Celebrating the city goes behind the scenes of early modern celebrations. Moving from splendid coronations to courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. In a major departure from existing scholarship, it uses the widest range of textual, visual and material evidence to demonstrate the importance of designing, making and organising to how and why festivals were meaningful. Mining evidence of the active processes by which events were made, it argues that urban festival politics cannot be understood without incorporating its material world into our analysis. The book’s unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of political history, will shed new light on how political publics were formed in early modern European cities. In showing how cities made festivals – and festivals made cities – this wide-ranging study makes a significant contribution to histories of festivals, political culture and urban life. -- .
Celebrating the city goes behind the scenes of early modern celebrations. Moving from splendid coronations to courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. In a major departure from existing scholarship, it uses the widest range of textual, visual and material evidence to demonstrate the importance of designing, making and organising to how and why festivals were meaningful. Mining evidence of the active processes by which events were made, it argues that urban festival politics cannot be understood without incorporating its material world into our analysis. The book’s unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of political history, will shed new light on how political publics were formed in early modern European cities. In showing how cities made festivals – and festivals made cities – this wide-ranging study makes a significant contribution to histories of festivals, political culture and urban life. -- .
Elaine Tierney is Senior tutor, History of Design and Material Culture, V&A Research Institute (VARI) -- .
Introducing the celebratory city
1 Mapping the celebratory city
2 Getting started
3 Mediating
4 Installing
5 Experiencing
6 Acting out
Celebrating the city: Conclusion
Select bibliography -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Design and Material Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 78 colour illustrations 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7995-4 / 1526179954 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7995-1 / 9781526179951 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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