pt. 1. Recovering the past. Early modern European festivals-politics and performance, event and record / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
The renaissance triumph and its classical heritage / Margaret M. McGowan.
pt. 2. Early modern France and festival. Court festival and triumphal entries under Henri II / Richard Cooper
Etiquette and architecture at the court of the last Valois / Monique Chatenet
The politics of festivals at the court of the last Valois / Nicolas Le Roux
The financing and material organization of court festivals under Louis XIV / Chantal Grell.
pt. 3. Festivals for Charles V. The two coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530 / Bernhard Schimmelpfennig
Charles V's journey through France, 1539-40 / R.J. Knecht
'Greater than Zeuxis and Apelles' : artists as arguments in the Antwerp entry of 1549 / Jochen Becker.
pt. 4. Ceremony and Elizabethan England. The funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the politics of Elizabethan festival / Elizabeth Goldring
'And the king of Barbary's envoy had to stand in the yard' : the perception of Elizabethan court festivals in Russia at the beginning of the seventeenth century / Victoria Musvik.
pt. 5. The performance of festival : music, theatre, and event. Rites of passage : Cosimo I de'Medici and the theatre of death / Iain Fenlon
The role of music in Italian court festivals in the early renaissance / Nicoletta Guidobaldi
Musical festivals at a capital without a court : Spanish Naples from Charles V (1535) to Philip V (1702) / Dinko Fabris
Music in Ferrarese festivals : harmony and chaos / Flora Dennis
Checklists for Philostrate / Roger Savage.
pt. 6. Festival and architecture. The Theatrum for the entry of Claudia de'Medici and Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere into Urbino, 1621 / Peter Davidson
The first temporary triumphal arch in Venice (1557) / Maximilian L.S. Tondro
Ephemeral ceremonial architecture in Prague, Vienna and Cracow in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Marina Dmitrieva-Einhorn.
