Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in BritainOUP Oxford, 15.02.2001 - 560 Seiten Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. 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. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today. |
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... town of Cheddar , where the Mendip Hills meet the Somerset marshes . Even there they now only visited those who did not pay the usual parish rate , and they ceased operations in 1636. They resumed them seven years later , when the Civil ...
... town of Cheddar , where the Mendip Hills meet the Somerset marshes . Even there they now only visited those who did not pay the usual parish rate , and they ceased operations in 1636. They resumed them seven years later , when the Civil ...
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... town were ' ordained to take trial of their crafts for sitting idle on Yule Day ' . The appeal to Morton was provoked by the first check received by the campaign ; at Dumfries , where the corporation defiantly paid a musician with a ...
... town were ' ordained to take trial of their crafts for sitting idle on Yule Day ' . The appeal to Morton was provoked by the first check received by the campaign ; at Dumfries , where the corporation defiantly paid a musician with a ...
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A History of the Ritual Year in Britain Ronald Hutton. 8 through the town with a cloth over his head , while another ... towns and to have receded from the south ; although the continuing total lack of evidence from the Highlands probably ...
A History of the Ritual Year in Britain Ronald Hutton. 8 through the town with a cloth over his head , while another ... towns and to have receded from the south ; although the continuing total lack of evidence from the Highlands probably ...
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... town , but one designed in the early nineteenth century , and it looks as if a genuine local tradition was trans- planted there , and endured , precisely because it provided a focus for an artificial ( and isolated ) community . Other ...
... town , but one designed in the early nineteenth century , and it looks as if a genuine local tradition was trans- planted there , and endured , precisely because it provided a focus for an artificial ( and isolated ) community . Other ...
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Mummers Play and Sword Dance | 70 |
HobbyHorse and Horn Dance | 81 |
The May | 226 |
May Games and Whitsun Ales | 244 |
Morris and Marian | 262 |
Rogationtide and Pentecost | 277 |
Royal Oak | 288 |
A Merrie May | 295 |
Corpus Christi | 304 |
The Midsummer Fires | 311 |
Misrule | 95 |
The Reinvention of Christmas | 112 |
Speeding the Plough | 124 |
Brigids Night | 134 |
Candlemas | 139 |
Valentines | 146 |
Shrovetide | 151 |
Lent | 169 |
The Origins of Easter | 179 |
Holy Week | 182 |
An Egg at Easter | 198 |
The Easter Holidays | 204 |
England and St George | 214 |
Beltane | 218 |
Sheep Hay and Rushes | 322 |
First Fruits | 327 |
Harvest Home | 332 |
Wakes Revels and Hoppings | 348 |
Samhain | 360 |
Saints and Souls | 371 |
The Modern Halloween | 379 |
Blood Month and Virgin Queen | 386 |
Gunpowder Treason | 393 |
Conclusions | 408 |
Notes | 428 |
Index | 519 |
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