The Tudor Dance

King Henry VIII

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Entertainment

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• Tudor
• Dance

[cabounds1]

This in in Rochester Cathedral, Kent. England.

[cabounds1]

It was only a bit of fun put on for the tourists and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. I just happened to be visiting the Cathedral and came upon it. The enactors were very pleasant folk and spared lots of time talking and advising anyone who wanted to talk to them.

[cabounds1]

I wish I knew but sorry I cannot help you.

[rcarmes1941]

The music is beautiful, but the costumes are horrible---truly ugly, and a maid would NEVER dance in public---these people are not at all graceful either

[stufour]

@destinyislandgirl (3) ..., and the Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is regarded as the height of the English Renaissance, rather than its beginning. My personal studies are in music and the music of Henry VIII's court certainly exihibit far more Renaissance characteristics than Mediaeval. I would also consider the English Reformation to be a thoroughly Renaissance event rather than Mediaeval.

[stufour]

@destinyislandgirl (2) My interpretation of the writers on this period in England (Andrew Hadfield, Michael Hattaway, Mary Lamb etc) is that The beginning of the English Renaissance is often taken, purely as a useful convention, as 1485, when the Battle of Bosworth Field inaugurated the Tudor Dynasty. Renaissance style and ideas, however, were slow in penetrating England (is this what you would view as the period "between" Mediaeval and Renaissance England?)...

[stufour]

@destinyislandgirl I think that's dating the Renaisance in England too late. If we take it as the influence of classical literature, philosophy and architecture in England it is certainly before Elizabeth I, which represents the apex of English Renaissance (or is that what you mean?)....

[destinyislandgirl]

@stufour I did not say Henry VIII's court was medieval. I just said the English Renaissance did not traditionally begin until Elizabeth I. I consider the medieval period to have ended when the Italian Renaissance began (around 1450's), and all of Europe started shifting by that point. Henry VIII's court was a time I consider to be between medieval and Renaissance.

[stufour]

@destinyislandgirl usually (and these things aren't exact :-) ) the Middle Ages are said to date from William I until Henry VIII. The English Renaissance is therefore usually said to begin with Henry VIII - his court was hardly mediaeval ;-)

[AllenEinsamkeit]

ES TAN LINDOOO LA DANSA MEDIEVAL <3 

[yalangyalangmp]

@destinyislandgirl  thanks

[destinyislandgirl]

@yalangyalangmp The English Renaissance did not start historically until Queen Elizabeth I came to power, the Italian Renaissance was in full swing at that point, so I guess this could be considered Renaissance. Medieval was between 1100 and 1400 I believe. =)

[Dragonchispi]

play a volta!

haha very nice I loved it but I didn´t like the costumes