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Title: The English Fair by David Kerr Cameron ISBN: 0-7509-1772-5 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)
Rating: 2
Summary: Lovely pictures but disappointing content
Comment: This book is profusely and gorgeously illustrated with period photos and paintings of English fairs, and as such it could be an invaluable resource to reenactors or devotees of the contemporary Renaissance Faire. However I found much of the text to be dry, repetitive, and frustratingly superficial, being largely composed of lists of the fairs that dealt in whatever commodity was being discussed (wool, beef, etc)along with relevant dates, locations, and sprinklings of anecdotes from authors and diarists of the time. Occasionally, however, these anecdotes would paint a vivid picture of a time and place different than our own. I enjoyed the information on the relationship of the church and the fair (factoid: many early fairs were held by churches in graveyards to take advantage of pilgrims' business when they came to visit the relics of the saints on their feast days). I was dismayed by the description of the hiring fairs ("mops") in which housemaids and farmhands would come to display themselves like cattle, looking for work in the coming year. Overall I was disappointed in this book- I was hoping for something with more disciplined, sociological approach- but it's possible a reader with different interests and objectives might find it more useful than I did.
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