Obsah kurzu:
Kontext, forma a místo konání dvorských slavností, vývoj v prostoru a čase. Divadelní aspekty dvorských slavností.
Antická inspirace. Vliv nových technologií na podobu dvorských slavností (vodotrysky, ohňostroje, atd.). Organizace dvorských slavností a způsoby jejich propagace. Dvorské slavnosti a monumentální architektura. Dvorské slavnosti jako prostředek komunikace mezi panovníkem, jeho politickými partnery a poddanými.
Atestace: zkouška
Literatura:
CHARTROU, Joseph, Les Entrées solennelles et triumphales a la Renaissance 1284-1551, Paris 1928
NAGLER, A.M., Theatre Festivals of the Medici, 1539?1637 (1964, reprinted 1976)
LANDWEHR, John, Splendid ceremonies. State entries and royal funerals in the Low Countries, 1515-1791, Nieuwkoop 1971
STRONG R., Art and Power. Renaissance Festivals 1450-1650, Woodbridge1984.
WADE, Mara R., Triumphus Nuptialis Danicus: German Court Culture and Denmark. The Great Wedding of 1634,
Wiesbaden, 1996
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WATANABE-O?KELLY, Helen, Court Culture in Dresden: From Renaissance to Baroque, Basingstoke and New York 2002
MULRYNE, Ronnie, GOLDRING, Elisabeth, eds., Court Festivals of the European Renaissance: Art, Politics and
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On line:
British Library, London: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html
The Getty: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/festivals/index.html
The Warburg Institute, London: http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/search/Y?SEARCH=Warburg%20Institute%20digital% 20copy%20%20Festivals%20&searchscope=24&SORT=A
Wolfenbütel: http://www.hab.de/bibliothek/wdb/festkultur/index.htm
Professor Frank Mohler: http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle/index.html