While medieval pageants and festivals such as Corpus Christi were church-sanctioned celebrations, carnival was also a manifestation of medieval folk culture.

It was amazing: like some strange medieval pageant.

He could hear her voice, lilting and resonant, as they walked in the apple orchard that evening after the medieval pageant.

Charlemagne, John the Baptist and Mohammed come to life again in a medieval pageant in which roles are passed down from generation to generation.

It'll be rather like a medieval pageant, I imagine.

But it was the food stores that fascinated me - the pates, the hams, the sausages were sumptuous, resembling stage props for some medieval pageant.

Walking through the Rorim was like living a medieval pageant.

Like a modern re-creation of a medieval pageant, "Anchoress" is stylized, the bluish black-and-white images creating poetic tableaux.

A medieval pageant is a form of procession traditionally associated with both secular and religious rituals, often with a narrative structure.

The hotel is famous for its annual Bracebridge Dinner, a medieval pageant, and tickets are sold by lottery.