Raconter, imprimer et archiver les temps forts de la vie de cour (Savoie, xve-xviie siècle)

• Main Author: Thalia Brero
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles 2019-04-01
• Series: Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles
• Subjects: rituals; ceremonial reports; printing; influences between courts; political communication; court literature
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/crcv/17258
• ISSN: 1958-9271

The significant development of princely and royal ceremonies at the end of the Middle Ages led the courts to an increase in documentation regarding these matters. This article presents the new types of texts specifically dedicated to dynastic rituals produced in the Renaissance (scripts, narrative accounts, printed booklets and so on). It then focuses on how these documents crossed not only the borders but also the centuries; in other words, how courts archived celebrations from other countries and from the past. It was necessary to keep the memory of these exceptional events, but also to be able to draw on them when inspiration was needed in planning a new ceremony.