Charles V, Prince Philip, and the Politics of Succession - Imperial Festivities in Mons and Hainault, 1549 (Relié)

Margaret M. McGowan CBE, FBA, is Research Professor at the University of Sussex. Her research interests centre on the intellectual, cultural and artistic concerns of early modern Europe. Her publications include : L'art du ballet de cour en France, 1581-1643 (1963) ; Montaigne's Deceits (1974) ; Ideal Forms in the Age of Ronsard (1986) ; The Vision of Rome in late Renaissance France (2) ; and Dance in the Renaissance : European Fashion, French Obsession (28).
Her recent chapters on Renaissance festivals include 'Lyon : A centre for Water Celebrations', in Margaret Shewring (ed.) Waterborne pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance : Essays in Honour of J. R. Mulryne (213), pp. 37-49 ; and 'Henri IV as Architect and Restorer of the State ; His Entry into Rouen, 16 October, 1594', in J. R. Mulryne, and Maria Ines Aliverti, with Anna Maria Testaverde (eds) Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe.
The Iconography of Power (215), pp. 53-75. She edited Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615. A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions, the first published volume in the series European Festival Studies : 154-17 (213). She gave the Leopold Delisle lectures in 212, and was awarded the Wolfson prize in 28 and the CBE for services to French Studies in 1998. Margaret Shewring is Reader in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Her teaching, research and recent publications concentrate on the performance context for Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Renaissance and Early Modern European Festivals and the design of space for performance on the contemporary stage. She was co-general editor of Europa Triumphans : Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe (24, e-book 21) and a co-investigator for the digitised collection of Renaissance Festival Books on the website of the British Library.
She edited Waterborne pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance. Essays in Honour of J. R. Mulryne (213). She is a co-founder of the Society for European Festaivals Research and joint general editor with the late J. R. Mulryne, Margaret M. McGowan and Marie-Claude Canova-Green, of the new Brepols Series of European Festival Studies.