Download or read book Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy written by Sydney Anglo and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 nowdeveloped 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 treatmentof its subject.