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In my experience, Ren Faires tend to run the whole range of early medieval to renaissance times. In Florida, there is a permanent year round dinner entertainme
by chrisco255 1y ago
In my experience, Ren Faires tend to run the whole range of early medieval to renaissance times.
In Florida, there is a permanent year round dinner entertainment show that includes horseback stunts called Medieval Times. In my local Ren Faire, it's really all meshed together, if someone wanted to have a viking event or attraction it would fit right in and no one would bat an eye.
- 5555624 1y agoMedieval Times has nine locations in the US and one in Canada.
- chrisco255 1y agoDidn't realize, was only aware of the FL one. Good to know!
- kragen 1y agoSo the answer is that people are unclear on the concept of "Renaissance"?
- chrisco255 1y agoIt's just become a stand-in word to describe this class of fairs. In practice, sometimes they are called medieval fairs at the event, but there's not a huge distinction. No one is going to nitpick at a medieval fair that some tech or innovation didn't exist until later and if a ren fair features elements of medieval times, it's just not going to be called out. Most people mean early renaissance anyways, as the fantasy to play up to, when knights and swords still played a big role and before colonial empires and musketeers really took over.