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Pageants and processions : images and idiom as spectacle / edited by Herman C. du Toit.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pageants--History.
- Pageants.
- Processions--History.
- Processions.
- Pageants--Social aspects.
- Processions--Social aspects.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 ha...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48119-3
- 9786612481192
- 1-4438-1507-1
- OCLC:
- 816365837
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