Resumen de Welcoming James VI & I in the North-East: Civic Performance and Conflict in Durham and Newcastle
Over the last few decades, there have been a number of studies of the meaning and politics of the pre-Modern royal welcome. As occasions for displays of civic or courtly power dynamics, the politics of royal and noble entries and the pageantry of royal progress have received valuable critical analysis. Regarding the Tudor and Stuart monarchs, David Bergeron’s English Civic Pageantry remains a landmark study of the ‘evolution’ of the pageant’s dramatic form. More recently, Alexander Samson has examined the welcome of Philip and Mary to London in 1554
