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Medieval pageant of the Palio di Legnano. A medieval pageant is a form of procession traditionally associated with both secular and religious rituals, often with a narrative structure. Pageantry was an important aspect of medieval European seasonal festivals, in particular around the celebration of Corpus Christi, which began after the ...
A Pageant in Coventry. The Coventry Mystery Plays, or Coventry Corpus Christi Pageants, are a cycle of medieval mystery plays from Coventry, West Midlands, England, and are perhaps best known as the source of the "Coventry Carol".
3 stages; free admission; city parking; service animals only ≠ (11b) mid-November (2 weekends) <5k (2012) Camelot Days: Canterbury Renaissance Faire Oregon: Silverton; semi-permanent Village of Canterbury; Elizabethan England (1560–1600) 2009 3 stages, 6+ acres; parking–shuttle ≠ (07c) last two weekends in July 10k (2012) Canterbury Faire
Hospitals in and around Canterbury from A History of the County of Kent (Victoria County History): Volume 2 (1926), pp. 209–216. The mirror of literature, amusement and instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 268; Aran Hurrell - Historian, MA Graduate in Medieval & Early Modern History, Head Tour Guide and Supervisor at Eastbridge Hospital.
Pageant comes from the archaic word for the wagon stage, "pagyn.” It is a word used to describe the movable stage on which a scene of the processional religious play was performed. [2] The origin of the religious play began in medieval churches. The dramas began as a simple way to impart the message of the Bible to the people.
More than a decade ago, a teenager named Caitlin Upton became one of the world's first true viral sensations. This was 2007, a few years before "going viral" was a daily occurrence: There was ...
Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century. The category of "medieval theatre" is vast, covering dramatic performance in Europe over a thousand-year period.
The production involved nine amateur drama groups each taking one play, and touring it to five playing stations in central York using pageant waggons. [11] [37] A production in similar format in 1998 featured eleven plays, and for the first time the modern York Guilds were involved with some of the plays, either directly or as sponsors. [38]