Pageant-Carriage Maintenance at Chester

• Autores: Philip Butterworth
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 39, 2017, págs. 5-34
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article examines the means of maintaining the Coopers' and Smiths' pageant carriages at Chester. Carriage wheels consisting of hubs, spokes, felloes and strakes required attention after long periods of inactivity in order to maintain their strength and fitness for purpose. The ways of turning the carriages, without turning-trains, is considered in relation to analogous practice. The article also submits a case to discount the previously considered interpretation of David Rogers' contradictory account that the carriages consisted of six wheels.