Traditionally, when dealing with the study of urban celebrations in Middle and Early Modern periods, historiography has accepted concept Gesamtkunstwerk to point out magnificence diversity artistic expressions that were part these ephemeral events. Without totally opposing this idea, reinforced by methodological currents such as history emotions, paper aims reflect on celebrations. We will prov...

“The show must go on” Proverbial—initially applied to the United States 1876 centennial celebrations and originally printed in The Morning Republican (Scranton, PA) on 13 December 1875. No other ti...