Celebrating the City: Making Festivals in Early Modern London and Paris (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526179951)

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.

Author: Elaine Tierney
ISBN-10: 1526179954
ISBN-13: 9781526179951
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover