Stations of the Sun (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
560
Utgivningsdatum
2001-02-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
5 maps 1 figure
Illustrationer
fig.5M.
Dimensioner
195 x 129 x 30 mm
Vikt
400 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
Re-numbered item (originally 0192880454)
ISBN
9780192854483

Stations of the Sun

A History of the Ritual Year in Britain

av Ronald Hutton
Häftad,  Engelska, 2001-02-01
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From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home, and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. This comprehensive and engaging study covers the whole sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present day.
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Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. a fascinating volume, which any future study of calendar rituals - or of 'pagan residues' in popular culture - will have to take into account.

Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. Students of religion will be impressed by the ample evidence the book provides, not for the survival of pagan religious practices in a Christian era, but for the survival of Catholic practices in a Protestant one.

Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. Well produced and written in a pleasing style, it is a rich source of information about late-medieval calendar customs whose scope extends far beyond the Middle Ages. Stations of the Sun belongs in the reference collection of any college library.

Eamon Duffy, TLS a tour de force from one of the liveliest and most wide-ranging of practising English historians this unfailingly stimulating, learned and engaging book places a relatively neglected aspect of English social history firmly on the map.


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Ronald Hutton is Reader in History at the University of Bristol.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Origins of Christmas; 2. The Twelve Days; 3. The Trials of Christmas; 4. Rites of Celebration and Reassurance; 5. Rites of Purification and Blessing; 6. Rites of Hospitality and Charity; 7. Mummers' Play and Sword Dance; 8. Hobby-Horse and Hord Dance; 9. Misrul; 10. The Reinvention of Christmas; 11. Speeding the Plough; 12. Brigid's Night; 13. Candlemas; 14. Valentines; 15. Shrovetide; 16. Lent; 17. The Origins of Easter; 18. Holy Week; 19. An Egg ad Easter; 20. The Easter Holidays; 21. England and St George; 22. Beltane; 23. The May; 24. May Games and Whitsun Ales; 25. Morris and Marian; 26. Rogatide and Pentecost; 27. Royal Oak; 28. A Merrie May; 29. Corpus Christi; 30. The Midsummer Fires; 31. Sheep, Hay, and Rushes; 32. First Fruits; 33. Harvest Home; 34. Wakes, Revels, and Hoppings; 35. Samhain; 36. Saints and Souls; 37. The Modern Hallowe'en; 38. Blood Month and Virgin Queen; 39. Gunpowder Treason; 40. Conclusion

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