Pageants and Processions

Pageants and Processions
Author: Herman du Toit
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443815071

Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these “beauty pageants” are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious, or civic events and their protagonists, as subjects. Pageants were historically characterized by resplendent costuming and elaborate processions that were often given to much pomp and ceremony. Pageantry has formed an important part of the civic life of most societies, both ancient and modern, serving a variety of cultural and political purposes. The use of drama and public spectacle as an instrument of civic, social, and religious activism has recently become the focus of renewed academic inquiry. The essays in this interdisciplinary anthology provide carefully researched insights into the phenomenon of pageantry over the centuries and across broad cultural boundaries.

Princely Feasts and Festivals

Princely Feasts and Festivals
Author: Bryan Holme
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Court and courtiers
ISBN: 9780500014516

Ranging in scope from the end of the Middle Ages to the early nineteenth century, this work explores the cultural and ideological significance of a variety of public ceremonies

London Pageants

London Pageants
Author: John Gough Nichols
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1837
Genre: City of London (England)
ISBN:

London Pageants. I. Accounts of Fifty-Five Royal Processions and Entertainments in the City of London

London Pageants. I. Accounts of Fifty-Five Royal Processions and Entertainments in the City of London
Author: London Pageants
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781358251733

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