There is a great deal in this open-minded and sane study that is valuable and timely. It deserves to be read widely, not least because its feel for what the cycle was really about is far better informed and more consistently illuminating than much other recent work.

• Introduction: Civic Drama and WorshipThe York Cycle and Corpus ChristiFrom after Epiphany to SeptuagesimaSeptuagesima and Organistation of the CycleQuadragesima to Palm SundayThe Christmas SeasonHoly Week and AfterThe Sacraments of the ChurchFeast of Fools?Select BibliographyIndex of Liturgical ReferencesGeneral Index

There is a great deal in this open-minded and sane study that is valuable and timely. It deserves to be read widely, not least because its feel for what the cycle was really about is far better informed and more consistently illuminating than much other recent work.

• Introduction: Civic Drama and WorshipThe York Cycle and Corpus ChristiFrom after Epiphany to SeptuagesimaSeptuagesima and Organistation of the CycleQuadragesima to Palm SundayThe Christmas SeasonHoly Week and AfterThe Sacraments of the ChurchFeast of Fools?Select BibliographyIndex of Liturgical ReferencesGeneral Index

There is a great deal in this open-minded and sane study that is valuable and timely. It deserves to be read widely, not least because its feel for what the cycle was really about is far better informed and more consistently illuminating than much other recent work.

• Introduction: Civic Drama and WorshipThe York Cycle and Corpus ChristiFrom after Epiphany to SeptuagesimaSeptuagesima and Organistation of the CycleQuadragesima to Palm SundayThe Christmas SeasonHoly Week and AfterThe Sacraments of the ChurchFeast of Fools?Select BibliographyIndex of Liturgical ReferencesGeneral Index