Clare A Simmons

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Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar YearPaperback, 4 April 2023

Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year
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Part of Series
Medievalism
Print Length
238 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Date Published
4 Apr 2023
ISBN-10
1843846829
ISBN-13
9781843846826

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Clare A Simmons
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
4 April 2023
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
1843846829
ISBN-13:
9781843846826
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
238
Weight:
340.19 gm

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