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06 Sep 2016, 8:20 pm

Take a look at the Differences between the renaissance fair, and the middle ages.


The 1300s through the 1600s AD:

Rabid Antisemitism
Profound Racism
Profound Sexism
Profound ownership and oppression of Women.

Low life expectancy.
High Infant Mortality rates
Unsafe to drink water, so alcoholism is almost 100 % assured.

High food insecurity.

No Electricity
No Running water
Insanely horrible Medical treatment
No Preventative measures

High probably of getting sick.
Bad living conditions
Disgusting and disease filled environment, bad sanitation and really bad hygiene.


Although nearer the end than the Beginning, Latin Europe still ruled Europe as individual countries of the Former roman empire (not the dutch as is celebrated in the hippy party).

France, a broken Spain, Portugal and Italy...
And they were horrible world leaders..



This is a Renaissance fair.

A hippy party.
Everybody is Welcome
Probably has Jewish people working with the legalities of it
Modern Technology

AMERICAN (yes, AMERICAN) food and drink.

So Why do people celebrate a twisted, and falsified deep past at the Renaissance fair ?



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06 Sep 2016, 8:37 pm

for fun


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06 Sep 2016, 8:50 pm

I think part is because the US never had a middle ages. Or - and ready that mind to be blown - is presently in one.

Wikipedia wrote:
Mikhail Bakhtin's four categories of the carnivalistic sense of the world:

1. Familiar and free interaction between people: carnival often brought the unlikely of people together and encouraged the interaction and free expression of themselves in unity.

2. Eccentric behaviour: unacceptable behaviour is welcomed and accepted in carnival, and one's natural behaviour can be revealed without the consequences.

3. Carnivalistic misalliances: familiar and free format of carnival allows everything that may normally be separated to reunite — Heaven and Hell, the young and the old, etc.

4. Sacrilegious: Bakhtin believed that carnival allowed for Sacrilegious events to occur without the need for punishment. Bakhtin believed that these kinds of categories are creative theatrical expressions of manifested life experiences in the form of sensual ritualistic performances.


Also, sweet threads. You get to wear cloaks and stuff.


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Of course, it's probably quite a bit more complicated than that.

You know sometimes, between the dames and the horses, I don't even know why I put my hat on.


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06 Sep 2016, 9:08 pm

My daughter did RenFairs for several years.Great arts and crafts stuff,cool clothes and food.
Just all in the spirit of fun,it doesn't have to be realistic.Who would buy food from a one eyed beggar with lice and boils nowadays?
We don't celebrate Samhain like we used to,I've yet to see a hollowed out turnip for a jack-o-lantern.


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