Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year - Paperback

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year - Paperback

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Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year - Paperback
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Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year - Paperback

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year - Paperback

$42.31
$42.31

by Clare A. Simmons (Author)

A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.

What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that nineteenth-century Britons asked themselves: which was more fun: living in their own time, or living in the Middle Ages? While Britain was becoming the most industrially-advanced nation in the world, many vaunted the superiority of the present to the past-yet others felt that if shadows of past ways of life haunted the present, they were friendly ghosts.
This book explores such ghosts and how real or imagined remnants of medieval celebration in a variety of forms created a cultural idea of the Middle Ages. As Britons found, or thought that they found, traces of the medieval in traditions tied to times of the year, medievalism became not only the justification but also the inspiration for community festivity, from Christmas and Boxing Day through Maytime rituals to Hallowe'en, as show in the writings of amongst many others Keats, Browning and Dickens.
Number of Pages: 238
Dimensions: 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: April 04, 2023

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