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

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

List of contents

Introduction: Medievalizing Time
1. The Christian and Not-so-Christian Year
2. Medievalist Calendar Experiments
3. Christmas Becomes a Season
4. Winter Love: St. Agnes and St. Valentine
5. Rites of Spring: Imagining Origins
6. Summer Festivals: Religion in Performance
7. Fragmented Autumn: Harvest-Home to Lord Mayor's Show
Epilogue: Christmas Ghosts

About the author

CLARE A. SIMMONS is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Clare Simmons, Clare A Simmons, Clare A (Contributor) Simmons, Clare A. Simmons
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781843845737
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-573-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 163 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Illustrations: 8 colour, 15 b/w illus.
• Series: Medievalism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918