Spectacle Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy History 1969 Oxford University Press

Description: Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy Sydney Anglo 1969 Oxford University Press 1st edition 375 page hardcover _____________________________________ This standard work, long out of print, discusses every English royal entry, festival, disguising, masque, and tournament, from the accession of Henry VII to the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth I. The study of court festivals, spectacle, and civic pageantry in Renaissance Europe has now developed into a major academic industry, so that the market for authoritative works on these themes extends far beyond the boundaries of conventional scholarly disciplines. Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy was a pioneering work and remains the only comprehensive and analytical treatment of its subject. from introduction When Henry Tudor, a moderately obscure magnet of Welsh descent, triumphed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, few would have given much for his chances of long survival. Princes, nobles, and notables, if not teams, had recently been coming and going with bewildering frequency, and there was no reason to suppose that the latest arrival, boasting only the most tenuous claim to the English throne, would fare better than his immediate predecessor. The times were not deemed propitious for dynastic stability. It has, intermittently, been fashionable to deride the idea of the war of the roses which, we are told, did not really concerned roses and may be hardly described as wars. Nevertheless, whatever judicious modern historians may say, there can be no doubt that the muddle headed and biased contemporaries were firmly convinced that there had been a good deal of fighting in England in recent years, then it centered principally on the houses of York and Lancaster, and that, on the whole, it will be very pleasant if it could stop… Contents Introduction the foundations of the tudor dynasty the consolidation of the Tudor dynasty court festivals: their form and purpose Universal peace in the field of cloth of gold The Imperial alliance and the entry of the Emperor Charles V into London: June 1522 magnificence: the Zeinith of Wolseys power: 1522-8 The Reformation and decline of court festivals the reign of Edward VI Mary, and Philip and Mary Epilogue: the last Tudor entry into London

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