1. Elite and Popular Culture The European World HI203 Dr Rosa Salzberg Pieter Brueghel the younger, Peasant Dance (1607)

2. Dance at the court of King Henry III, later XVI

3. Definitions beliefs, customs, rituals, clothing, artworks, literature, performances etc. of non-elites different elites: rulers/aristocracy; urban elites; economic and intellectual elites blurring at the edges

4. Courtly Culture Shift of power towards ruler Centre for patronage, preferment, cultural life Competitions in magnificence

5. Palais du Louvre, Paris Place des Vosges, Paris

6. Pierre Patel, Palace of Versailles, 1668

7. The “civilising process” (Norbert Elias) Refinement of manners and etiquette Elaborate rituals and behaviour

8. Lineage, prestige, status Conspicuous consumption Dissociation from manual labour/trade Humanist education Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527

9. Definitions who are ‘the people’? differences of wealth, education, gender, age, religion

10. Studying Popular Culture ‘an elusive quarry’ (P. Burke) ‘a lost Atlantis’ (R. Muchembled) oblique access through ‘brokers’/mediators NB. problem of sources as ‘filters’

11. Interactions New work in the 60s and 70s Influence of anthropology and sociology eg. Natalie Zemon Davis

12. Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978) ‘great’ and ‘little’ traditions elites participate in both, “people” only in little tradition

13. Carlo Ginzburg The Cheese and the Worms (English trans. 1980) focus on circularity and appropriation Microhistory of Menocchio the miller active appropriation from elite culture “a total, unified culture, rather than some kind of fractured 'two-tier' entity” (R. Scribner)

14. The Court Protecting and enclosing the prince Connecting to the outside Presence of artists, craftsmen, performers

15. The Globe Theatre

16. Shakespeare

17. Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso

18. Change growing division between popular and elite? ‘Triumph of Lent’ over carnival (Burke) Protestant and Catholic reform of popular practices attempts to control spaces like piazzas, streets, alehouses

19. Pieter Breughel the elder, Peasant Wedding (1567-8)

20. Gentile Bellini, Procession in St. Mark’s Square (1496)

21. Change growing division between popular and elite ‘Triumph of Lent’ over carnival (Burke) Protestant and Catholic reform of popular practices attempts to control spaces like piazzas, streets, alehouses BUT elites still participate popular culture could be conservative

22. Rough music/ charivari

23. Role of print ‘popular print’ eg. ballads, almanachs, chapbooks, prints blurred boundaries, encouraged interchange stemmed by censorship, regulation but new opportunities to express and preserve popular culture

24. 1) other factors 2) not inherently rebellious 3) look for connections 4) changes over the period