Reacting to the Past - The French Revolution - VIG
Title:
Reacting to the Past - The French Revolution - VIG
Year:
2018
Original Order:
13956
Game:
2018-LRP18140959
Short Description:
Peter Adkison will run this larp-like event set in the French Revolution. This event features a ruleset developed by Mark C. Carnes, professor history at Barnard College for use in the classroom.
Long Description:
Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 plunges students into the intellectual, political, and ideological currents that surged through revolutionary Paris in the summer of 1791. Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Will the king retain power? Will the priests of the Catholic Church obey the “general will” of the National Assembly or the dictates of the pope in Rome? Do traditional institutions and values constitute restraints on freedom and individual dignity or are they its essential bulwarks? In wrestling with these issues, students consult Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, among other texts.
Event Type:
LRP - LARP
Game System:
Reacting to the Past
Rules Edition:
1st
Minimum Players:
1
Maximum Players:
10
Age Required:
Teen (13+)
Experience Required:
None (You've never played before - rules will be taught)