The articles in this volume use a variety of disciplinary approaches to examine texts and archival documents recording 16th-c. French ceremonial entries. By their very nature, ceremonial entries require such an approach: they bring together a number of artistic media, including music, architecture, and literature, and a range of political concerns, like international diplomacy and the relations between urban and royal power. Few cultural constructs offer such rich and varied terrain to the student of 16th-c. France. The collection looks to examine salient aspects of ceremonial entries in order to cast a new light on early-modern French society.

The Editors

NICOLAS RUSSELL is assistant professor of French Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts. His research interests include early modern intellectual history and conceptions of mental faculties. He is currently studying the concept of collective memory as it appears in sixteenth-century historiography and royal entries.

HÉLÈNE VISENTIN is associate professor of French Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, and a member of the Groupe de Recherche sur les Entrées Solennelles. Her research projects bear on the history and the aesthetics of the performing arts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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