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Christmas Traditions: A Celebration of Festive Lore

[Hardback]

by George Goodwin

    • Author

      George Goodwin

    • Book Format

      Hardcover

    • Publisher

      British Library

    • Published

      December 2020

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      Christmas Traditions: A Celebration of Festive Lore

      Today's Price £11.47

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      Product Description

      A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of the traditional festivities. Forty short pieces on individual traditions are each accompanied by charming vintage illustrations from the British Library's collection of Christmas books, cards, and ephemera. Origins of the Feast at Christmas; the decision to celebrate Christ's birthday on 25 December; the Yuletide festival of Anglo-Saxon England; Saturnalia; evergreens taken inside in midwinter; the original Captain Christmas 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' - Christmas in and out of Church Holly symbolizing Christ's crown of thorns; the role of Midnight Mass; European celebrations of Epiphany and the importance of the Three Kings Christmas down the Ages Mistletoe and kissing; the Puritan ban on Christmas; the Twelve Days of Christmas; Dickens's recipe for Twelfth Night cake The Transatlantic 'Victorian' Christmas Nineteenth-century romanticization of Christmas and invented traditions; goose clubs; advent calendars; Christmas cards and gift-giving Modern Traditions Individual, sometimes outlandish traditions from around the world

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      • Author

        George Goodwin

      • Book Format

        Hardcover

      • Publisher

        British Library

      • Published

        December 2020

      • Weight

        316g

      • Dimensions

        133 x 191 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9780712352949

      • ISBN-10

        0712352945

      • Eden Code

        5311364

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      • Author/Creator: George Goodwin

      • ISBN: 9780712352949

      • Publisher: British Library

      • Release Date: December 2020

      • Weight: 316g

      • Dimensions: 133 x 191 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 5311364

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