Before entering the faire, I tried predicting how it would correspond based off everything I had heard in class, which is an aspect of natural sciences. Then, I came up with my own hypotheses which I thought that it might be a little strange but unique at the same time considering this was an unusual experience for me. After, I started to observe the environment by conducting field research demonstrating the social sciences. By using the history from our books about the Elizabethan era, by expressing humanities I was able to but my imagination and creativity to play. A way of interpreting mathematics is by finding logical reasoning to the ideas being displayed and patterns with data collected.
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This was a picture that reminded me of the show Wolf Hall. The setting was displayed just as it would in the show with the king, queen, cardinal and Thomas Cromwell.
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The Renaissance Faire was very fascinating due to the fact that we were able to experience both of our class readings, Tudors and The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. It felt as if I was able to visualize every aspect of these two books as I walked through seeing everyone in costumes and all the displays giving the ideal feeling of the Elizabethan era. The People, Character, What to Wear, What to Eat and Drink and of course “Entertainment” were the main chapters of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England that were illustrated throughout the faire. Tudors gave the background story to the whole Elizabethan England era by explaining what happened and why it did during this time.
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"Child mortality is greater in towns because of the spread of diseases, but even in rural areas, 21 percent of children die before they reach their tenth birthday, two-thirds of them in their first years of life” (Mortimer 27). This is a quote from "The People" chapter of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Though it was sad to read, while observing the Renaissance Faire it was noticeable that there were not many kids who were part of the faire. I predicted that there would be a lot of kids, although the data from my observation showed only a few kids under the age of around 16. Besides the fact that there were very few children that actually were apart of the faire, there were many families with children that came to experience this old and fascinating world. Seeing the pattern of all the children being able to learn about this era through this faire was meaningful. Since children are the future, we should allow them to explore the past by actively participating in something like this, which gives them the opportunity to be in the Elizabethan England era for a moment to visualize it from a different point of view. This is also why I appreciated the "Queen’s College Do-It-Thyself Workshops" because they taught people how to create crafts so that they would be able to create these crafts for themselves.
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| May 9, 2015 "Queen's College Do-It-Thyself Workshops" |
The second main chapter that was demonstrated by a great extent throughout the faire was “What the Wear”. Everywhere I walked there were people in costumes dressed up as wealthy, noble, and servant men and women. It expressed who they were and what class they represented. The way you dress is essential to what status you display, for example all of the food workers were dressed as servants which meant their outfits were simple compared to the wealthy. There was a quote in The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England which explained exactly why what they wore was not just an outfit as it is today. “In a society dominated by strict hierarchies, everyone is expected to dress according to his or her rank; the way you look is a statement of how much respect you deserve as a person” (Mortimer 133). During this era it was not the type of car you drove that showed everyone how wealthy you were, as it is today, instead it was all about what you wore. If you are wealthy, then it is very important to show it with what you wear in order to be respected for your wealth.
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| May 9, 2015 These were some of the types of outfits they had during this era. The right picture demonstrated how their outfits expressed how wealthy they were and how much respect they received. |
One way of displaying natural sciences was when my boyfriend and I were able to experiment with the Renaissance food at the faire. We wanted to experience this era to the fullest, therefore, we needed to try one of their many different and interesting types of food. The food that we chose to experiment with were the Meat Pies. Both of us ordered a chicken meat pie and with this I was able to connect all four concepts of humanities, mathematics, natural and social sciences all together. They were all connected in the way we wanted to actively participate, which deals with humanities, in the Renaissance time that we chose to try the pies. Experimenting with the meat pies corresponds with natural science, also predicting how they would taste and how we were observing them. This then led to the social sciences, observing them and discussing what we thought of the pie. At the end, we explained how they seemed as if they were not fulfilling in size at first but realized that they were a great proportion. Inside the pies were chicken, peas, corn, carrots and some type of gravy. This dealt with considering the pies from a mathematics view and the amount it had and measurements of it did not change the taste and how filling it was.
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| May 9, 2015 Meat pies seemed to be a very popular as you can tell in the picture on the bottom left. The pies are shown on the right side, we tried the chicken pies which are displayed in the middle rack. |
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Music
The most exciting part of the Renaissance Faire was the entertainment all around, from people playing instruments, to singing, to playing games and most importantly the jousting. All of these made the chapter of "Entertainment" in The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England be shown in such an outstanding way. As I read the chapter for my group project on entertainment, it was interesting to hear all the types of games they had back then that are so similar yet so different from today. There was music played by a group of men playing instruments and singing, the beat was enjoyable as well as the song being amusing. Besides this, there were also many games throughout the area from dice, to archery, and even football being played. Also there were some types of entertainment that were very unique, for example, jousting, which was mentioned not only this chapter of entertainment but also the Tudors as well as Wolf Hall. Jousting was something king Henry VII did frequently and almost died from once. Although on the show they never fully showed it in the book and they never really described it much, so because of this you could only use humanities by having a creative response and imagining it. Therefore, the Renaissance Faire connected the book and the show to this event even more.
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Juggling
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| May 9, 2015 Entertainment was all around as shown in this collage I made, of several of the different games.
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Jousting
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Work Cited
Ackroyd, Peter. The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabethan I Tudors. New York: Thomas Dunne, n.d. Print.
Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. New York: Penguin Group, 2014. Print.
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