BookRenaissance festivals : merrying the past and present
Personal name
Main title
- Renaissance festivals : merrying the past and present / Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans.
Published/Created
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, c2009.
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Description
- xi, 204 p. ; ill, photpgraphs 23 cm.
ISBN
- 9780786440146 (softcover : alk. paper)
LC classification
- GV1835.5 .K67 2009
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--Provided by publisher.
Contents
- Seeking the new in the old: the contemporary American Renaissance festival -- Carnival setting, cultural work -- A stroll through the sensescape of the MDRF -- Living history at the MDRF: performing embodied knowledge -- Historical elaboration: a royal day in revel grove -- Performers, patrons, and playtrons : interactions and interfaces in the intrastice -- Afterword: the beer is in the pick-up truck ; or, put down the accent, step away from the character and nobody gets hurt!
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
- 2009022107
Dewey class no.
- 394/.60973
Geographic area code
- n-us--- n-us-md
Type of material
- Book
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
- GV1835.5 .K67 2009 FT MEADE
- Copy 2
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- Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE
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- Not Charged