pageant Betydning & definition

Eksempler på pageant

• The conversational data led me to seek out other texts that contained references to body size, beauty pageants, and gendered practices of watching one's weight.

• Moreover, despite their historical import, such dynastic pageants were usually dramatized in terms that emphasized the divine, providential mystery of the royal line of descent.

• The neo-feudal ethos of the pageants only thinly concealed a rivalrous relationship, in which merchants liked to represent themselves as the peers of kings.

• Because only the monarch and his entourage moved past each of the stationary pageants, the potential for dramatic development and discursive connection was strictly limited.

• The polygonal architecture, niches, and parapets of these structures readily accommodated the pageants built on, around, or near them.

• During spectacles and pageants, monarchs consolidated their authority by exposing themselves to the gaze of their subjects.

• There was a concomitant development of a sense of town history, conveyed through pageants, local chronicles and compilations of records and mayoral portraits.

• Also, this diverse theatrical life was often built upon local medieval traditions (liturgical dialogues, mystery plays, passion plays, pageants), school drama, and aristocratic court theatre.