Bonfires & bells : national memory and the Protestant calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
Cressy, David2004
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Following the Reformation, bonfires and bells were the most public markers of a new calendar that was uniquely English and that developed in the 200 years following it. David Cressy presents the reader with a picture of an English people who were at odds with the Puritan killjoys of their day.
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Stroud : Sutton, 2004.
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xiv, 271 p. ; 22 cm.
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-264) and index.
ISBN:
9780750936422 (pbk)
Local class:
394.209420903
Language:
English
Subject:
Festivals -- England -- History -- 17th centuryFasts and feasts -- England -- History -- 17th centuryFestivals -- England -- History -- 18th centuryFasts and feasts -- England -- History -- 18th centuryEngland -- Social life and customs -- 17th centuryEngland -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryCustoms and Folklore
BRN:
510458