Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Br. Simmons Paperback**

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A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages.\nWhat 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.\nThis 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\n\nMedievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture\nCelebrating the Calendar Year\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tr;