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xiv, 271 pages : 25 cm Bonfires and Bells brings together in a novel and illuminating way the history of popular culture and mainstream politics in Elizabethan and Stuart England. During these years the calendar, although founded on Christianity, took its guiding landmarks from recent incidents in English history, and so became an important expression of a distinctly national Protestant culture....At one level [the book] serves as a history of patriotism, paranoia, and anti-catholicism -- at another it provides an anthropological exploration of the rich vocabulary of festivity and celebration in a barely modern society.--Book jacket Spine title: Bonfires & bells "First published in Great Britain by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson ... London"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) Preface -- Introduction -- Patterns of time : The Tudor calendar -- The rhythm of the year in early modern England -- The politics of the calendar, 1600-1660 -- Crownation day and the royal honour -- Bonfires and bells : the vocabulary of celebration -- Affctionate gladness : the return of Prince Charles -- The Spanish Armada : anxiety, deliverance and commemoration -- Queen E

Author

Cressy, David

Publisher

Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520069404

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities