English Pageantry
Author : Robert Withington
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Pageants
ISBN :
Author : Robert Withington
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Pageants
ISBN :
Author : Robert Withington
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Pageants
ISBN :
Author : Angela Bartie
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1787354059
Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of ‘pageant fever’ remain in evidence today.
Author : Peter R. Coss
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843830368
Discussion of display through a range of artefacts and in a variety of contexts: family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us directly into the values, aspirations and, indeed, anxieties of past societies. In this illustrated volume a group of experts address a series of interrelated themes around the issue of display and do so in a waywhich avoids jargon and overly technical language. Among the themes are family and lineage, social distinction and aspiration, ceremony and social bonding, and the expression of power and authority. The media include monumental effigies, brasses, stained glass, rolls of arms, manuscripts, jewels, plate, seals and coins. Contributors: MAURICE KEEN, DAVID CROUCH, PETER COSS, CAROLINE SHENTON, ADRIAN AILES, FRÉDÉRIQUE LACHAUD, MARIAN CAMPBELL, BRIAN and MOIRA GITTOS, NIGEL SAUL, FIONN PILBROW, CAROLINE BARRON and JOHN WATTS.
Author : Caroline Hill Davis
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Pageants
ISBN :
Author : David M. Bergeron
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820338435
Pageantry in the Shakespearean Theater focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the enormous influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater. Ranging across Shakespeare's canon and including the work of his fellow playwrights, this collection of twelve essays considers tournaments, royal entries, Lord Mayor's Shows, funeral processions progress entertainments, court masques, and more.
Author : Tracey Hill
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719063824
This in-depth study of the important but neglected writer Anthony Munday fills a long-standing gap in our knowledge and understanding of London and its culture in the early modern period. It will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and cultural geographers.
Author : Robert Withington
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Pageants
ISBN :
Author : David M. Bergeron
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"This revised book seeks to call renewed and vigorous attention to this sometimes marginalized dramatic form by insisting that civic pageants constituted a major part of cultural and theatrical life in early modern England. Bergeron's fresh look at this material seeks to recover and analyze the world of English civic pageantry, opening its richness for inspection and wonder."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Glassberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807842867
What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the