The gardens and lakes were prepared for the performance of elaborate pageantry and simulated naval battles.
Because the focus was on the sound and not the visual image, the studio session demanded less pageantry than did public performance.
Folk dances were the main spectacles that smaller towns could offer to royal visitors, and these were integrated into more elaborate civic pageantry as well.
Sensory pageantry also ensures the persistence and transmission of the religious beliefs and practices it infuses.
It was, for example, a major feature of much medieval pageantry, and it characterizes the modern carnival that involves performance.
During the feast, not only was the urban space entirely transformed by pageantry, but the inhabitants collectively experienced a common exaltation, a great catharsis.
It was also an attempt to democratise the area, to celebrate its history and pageantry and make it more welcoming.
Although he used few illustrations in his texts, his descriptions of "charismatic centers" of power gave examples of how public displays conveyed meaning in pageantry, dress, art, and architecture.
