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Pageantry and Ritual in Dublin from 1450 -1700.
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Pageantry and Ritual in Dublin from 1450 -1700. The period 1450-1700 was a period of change and uncertainty in Dublin. It showed the change in Dublin from town to beginnings of a city. There was also a lot of both political and social change to which pageantry and ritual played their part. To understand this change and the involvement that pageantry and ritual had you must first go back and trace the roots of Dublin and how the seed of a city was planted. The origins of Dublin as a town are closely linked to the activities of the first settlers: the Vikings. They came to Ireland as raiders, mainly from the Norwegian fjords, in the ninth century and sailed up Irish rivers to plunder wealthy monasteries and capture prisoners whom they sold as slaves to Iceland and on the continent. It was only in the middle of the tenth century that...
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