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1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Contents |
Makers of meaning : plays and processions in goddess cults of the Near East / Michelle Wimber -- The holiest day : the rituals of Yom Kippur as sacred procession / David Nielsen -- From marketplace to Mount Carmel : eastern pageantry and the spectacle of folk religion on the Bay of Naples / Elliott Wise -- Painted processions : the Victorian fascination with Christian and pagan ritual / Rita Wright -- The pageants of power and society in the Republic of Venice / Marino Zorzi -- Processions in Burgundy : late-medieval ceremonial entries / Jesse D. Hurlbut -- Eluelie : an Aowin renewal celebration / Patricia Coronel -- An Asafo Fante funeral : the final procession of life / Michael Coronel -- Double-entendre : Mussorgsky's "pictures at an exhibition" as pageant and procession / Jerry L. Jaccard -- The Scottish National War Memorial : a pageant in stone and glass / Rachel Grover -- Private tribute, public art : The masque of the golden bowl and the artistic beginnings of American pageantry / Annelise K. Madsen -- Performing the national body : murals and pageants at the turn of the twentieth century / Sarah J. Moore -- Pageants of nineteenth century American queens / Rosella Mamoli -- The pageant people : a Latter-day Saint appropriation of an art form / Claudia Bushman |
| 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 .. |
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Pageants -- History
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Pageants -- Social aspects
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Processions -- History
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Processions -- Social aspects
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Theater -- History.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Pageants
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Processions
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Theater
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Herman Du Toit.
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| ISBN |
1282481193 |
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9781282481190 |
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9781443815079 |
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1443815071 |
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