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Celebrating the City: Making Festivals in Early Modern London and Paris

Celebrating the City: Making Festivals in Early Modern London and Paris

Tierney, Elaine

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

General DesignArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1526179954
ISBN13: 9781526179951
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 2.03
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Celebrating the City takes readers behind the scenes of early modern urban festivities. Ranging from magnificent coronations to modest courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Departing from existing scholarship, it draws on an exceptionally broad array of textual, visual and material sources to show that designing, making and organising were central to how festivals acquired meaning. By foregrounding the processes through which events were created, the book argues that urban festival politics cannot be understood without attention to their material worlds. Its innovative methodology--combining design history with political history--sheds new light on the formation of political publics in early modern European cities. Demonstrating how cities made festivals, and festivals helped make cities, this study significantly advances histories of festivals, political culture and urban life.

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