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Now there's a website for Renaissance Faires.
Rennaisance Faires Magazine ^

Posted on 05/06/2010 4:11:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For those of you who enjoy them. Interesting articles, history, details of fairs & festivals, etc...


TOPICS: Food; History; Local News; The Guild
KEYWORDS: entertainment; expositions; fairs; festivals; godsgravesglyphs; renaissance; renaissancefaires
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1 posted on 05/06/2010 4:11:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

;-)

2 posted on 05/06/2010 4:13:10 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I love the logo for our Louisiana Renaissance festival....St. George slaying the Alligator...


3 posted on 05/06/2010 4:13:53 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The thing with what I've seen at Renaissance fairs, is that it they are really Medieval fairs. What one sees has as much to do with 13th and 14th Century as the 15th.
4 posted on 05/06/2010 4:15:37 PM PDT by Plutarch
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It’s probably just me, but I can’t stand Renaissance festivals.


5 posted on 05/06/2010 4:16:22 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: Plutarch

Yet increasingly there are scores of pirates from the 17th & 18th centuries, not exactly the Renaissance, either.


6 posted on 05/06/2010 4:18:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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What do you call people who go to Renaissance Faires?

"Renaissance Fairies"?

7 posted on 05/06/2010 4:18:19 PM PDT by x
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To: ChocChipCookie

I sometimes think it’s where you go when you’re too old to be a Deadhead or go to a Phish concert.


8 posted on 05/06/2010 4:19:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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To: mgstarr

Dost thou playeth “Freebird?”


9 posted on 05/06/2010 4:20:10 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Morgana the Kissing Bandit is on call.


10 posted on 05/06/2010 4:32:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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What do you call people who go to Renaissance Faires?
"Renaissance Fairies"?

Those who belong to guilds, operate booths, or attend the festivals dressed up in Renaissance-era outfits are called Rennies. Fair patrons who come in 21st. century dress are called Mundanes.

11 posted on 05/06/2010 4:38:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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The Earl of Elmore County on his noble steed.......

12 posted on 05/06/2010 4:42:20 PM PDT by BossLady (<----Butler Alumnus - proud of my Dawgs!!!)
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To: Plutarch
The thing with what I've seen at Renaissance fairs, is that it they are really Medieval fairs. What one sees has as much to do with 13th and 14th Century as the 15th.

Phyllis Patterson, who started the Renaissance fairs in 1963, tried for years to maintain these events as re-enactments of sixteenth-century English rural fairs and to keep them free of anachronisms. However, such events today usually feature anachronisms such as jousting contests (which most likely died out by the time of the Renaissance) to burritos.

13 posted on 05/06/2010 4:47:35 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yet increasingly there are scores of pirates from the 17th & 18th centuries, not exactly the Renaissance, either.

The pirates started showing up at Renaissance fairs in the 1990's, and now they are increasingly staging their own fairs as well.

14 posted on 05/06/2010 4:51:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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We went to one last summer. A mix of people from old and young hippies, to conservative Christian homeschoolers with a period costume making hobby. I liked the fair. It includes people who enjoy playing, in a way reasonably ok for grown-ups. The wood-workers, swordsmen, etc. were interesting. Especially the falconry lady, who had live birds of prey.

I also liked the music.

Not liked: the new age and wicca influences, and the young people who were flaunting their cleavage (ok, a little envy there.)


15 posted on 05/06/2010 5:01:42 PM PDT by married21
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Not liked: the new age and wicca influences...

I don't like that, either. The Renaissance/Reformation period is known for its scientific advances and contending schools of Christian thought, not occultism.

16 posted on 05/06/2010 5:35:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Jousting persisted into the 1600s- and there is some evidence it was done in the 1700s (look up the Mischianza in the American Revolution.) A few historical anachronisms won’t hurt anything- the people wearing elf ears, on the other hand....


17 posted on 05/06/2010 5:44:59 PM PDT by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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Look up the Mischianza in the American Revolution

Some Americans managed to crash that party.

18 posted on 05/06/2010 6:02:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOVE it!
Thank you!


19 posted on 05/06/2010 6:21:07 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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Renaissance Fairies"?

That is why my eyes saw too.

I starting thinking about the works of Adolphe-Willaim Bouguereau. He had some cool fairy painting, and some beautiful religious painting.

My favorite being Song of Angels

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20 posted on 05/06/2010 6:31:44 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free, Free Republic.com baby.)
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