Description: Further DetailsTitle: Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British CultureCondition: NewSubtitle: Celebrating the Calendar YearISBN-10: 1843846829EAN: 9781843846826ISBN: 9781843846826Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/04/2023Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Clare A SimmonsGenre: Society & CultureTopic: History, Literary CriticismBook Series: MedievalismItem Weight: 362gRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Title: Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Subtitle: Celebrating the Calendar Year
ISBN-10: 1843846829
EAN: 9781843846826
ISBN: 9781843846826
Release Date: 04/04/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture : Celebrating the Calendar Year
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Medieval, Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485), Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Popular Culture, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Medieval
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Clare A. Simmons
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Series: Issn Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
