Michael Wintroub offers an extensively researched and thoughtful look at Henri II's 1550 royal entry into the city of Rouen, France.His initial site of investigation is a Brazilian village that was recreated in Rouen specifically for the entry.The village came complete with natives brought from Brazil to battle against each other; by all accounts the king was impressed with this spectacle and the others that were produced by the entry festival organizers.Wintroub examines how this tableau vivant signalled French understandings of the Other, and deftly analyzes the additional philosophies, traditions, and rituals that were simultaneously referenced.Indeed, the festival entry offers tantalizing clues with regard to local lobbying for support in trade with Brazil; efforts to educate the king in the tradition of the speculum principis; humanist notions of progress, eloquence, and personal achievement; cultural elitism among the Rouen citizenry; messianic beliefs and the search for paradise; the ancient ritual of the triumph and its connection to Christ's entry into Jerusalem; and the sixteenth-century European fascination with wonder cabinets and relics.
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