High-level analysis and opinion from acknowledged experts, drawing on established scholarship.

• Festivals in Italy: J.R. Mulryne
• Festivals in the Holy Roman Empire: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
• Habsburg festivals: Alexander Samson
• Festivals in Valois France: J.R. Mulryne
• Festivals in Spain: David Sánchez
• Court and civic festivals in Tudor and early Stuart England: J.R. Mulryne
• The performance and staging of courtly theatre: Roger Savage
• Who was a festival book aimed at? Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
• Festival books as history: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
• Festival books as panegyric: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
• The German illustrated festival book: Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly