Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs

by Fernando Checa Cremades, Laura Fernández-González, Laura Fernandez Gonzalez, et al.

Book Overview

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern Iberian world, in particular the spectacles staged by and for the Spanish Habsburgs. The study of early modern Iberian festival culture in Europe and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103292215X
• ISBN13: 9781032922157
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages