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Concours de tir et diplomatie urbaine dans le Saint-Empire, xv e-xvi e siècle
Plus d’un millier de concours de tir sont organisés aux xv e et xvi e siècles dans le sud du Saint-Empire. Comme pour les Jeux olympiques modernes villes libres et résidences des princes rivalisent lors de compétitions d’arbalète et d’arquebuse. À travers des performances sportives des rituels symboliques des stratégies de communication la constitution de délégations aux couleurs de chaque ville ainsi que des descriptions poétiques c’est la hiérarchie des villes allemandes et suisses ainsi que leur influence dans les réseaux régionaux ou confessionnels qui sont réaffirmées. Cet ouvrage contribue à la fois à l’histoire des villes de l’espace germanophone et à l’histoire des sports avant la modernité.
Court Festivals of the Holy Roman Empire, 1555–1619
Performing German Identity
This study represents a new approach to the analysis of early modern court festivals setting the question of identity at its heart. It explores identity as it was portrayed constructed and upheld through court festivals within the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the period between the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the coronation of Friedrich V Elector Palatine as King of Bohemia in 1619. Structured thematically this detailed analysis touches on core themes of early modern European history including state formation princely courts gender religion science and the natural world and cultural encounters. In doing so it draws on and speaks to scholarly literature not only from different historical sub-disciplines but also from sociology and anthropology. Ultimately Morris argues that these court festivals provided a flexible albeit contested rhetoric of identity grounded in the performance of humanist virtue. Through the performed material and literary rhetoric of court festivals the concept of nobility through virtue was reworked refined and given a new vocabulary within the German context. This was inextricably linked with politics in light of the reforms made to the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the fifteenth century the confessional divisions of the sixteenth century and the mounting tensions of the early seventeenth century which were to culminate in the Thirty Years War.