Pageants and Processions : Images and Idiom as Spectacle
ISBN: 9781443815079
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Social Science; Fine Arts;

Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these OC beauty pageantsOCO 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..."


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