02779nam 2200661Ia 450 991046487720332120200520144314.01-282-48119-397866124811921-4438-1507-1(CKB)3390000000008942(EBL)1133146(OCoLC)816365837(SSID)ssj0000440562(PQKBManifestationID)11273935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000440562(PQKBWorkID)10471244(PQKB)11378659(MiAaPQ)EBC1133146(Au-PeEL)EBL1133146(CaPaEBR)ebr10677181(CaONFJC)MIL248119(EXLCZ)99339000000000894220011011d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPageants and processions[electronic resource] images and idiom as spectacle /edited by Herman C. du ToitNewcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars20091 online resource (250 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-1249-8 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; INDEXNowadays 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...PageantsHistoryProcessionsHistoryPageantsSocial aspectsProcessionsSocial aspectsCivilization, MedievalTheaterHistoryElectronic books.PageantsHistory.ProcessionsHistory.PageantsSocial aspects.ProcessionsSocial aspects.Civilization, Medieval.TheaterHistory.792.022Du Toit Herman C1000677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464877203321Pageants and processions2296896UNINA