Pageants and processions [[electronic resource] ] : images and idiom as spectacle / / edited by Herman C. du Toit
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| Titolo: |
Pageants and processions [[electronic resource] ] : images and idiom as spectacle / / edited by Herman C. du Toit
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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792.022 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pageants - History |
| Processions - History | |
| Pageants - Social aspects | |
| Processions - Social aspects | |
| Civilization, Medieval | |
| Theater - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
Du ToitHerman C
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pageants and processions |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48119-3 |
| 9786612481192 | |
| 1-4438-1507-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464877203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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