Renaissance festivals : merrying the past and present /
This is an ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs, focusing on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking and meticulously faithful historical reconstr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company,
[2009]
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| Summary: | This is an ethnographic study of contemporary American Renaissance fairs, focusing on the Maryland Renaissance Festival, in which participants recreate sixteenth-century England through performances of theater, combat-at-arms, processions, street hawking and meticulously faithful historical reconstructions. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786440146 (softcover : alk. paper) 0786440147 (softcover : alk. paper) |