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Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
Bonfires and Bells National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
Author: David Cressy
Bonfires, synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, and bells, rung on a host of joyous occasions, were the most public markers of a new calendar that was uniquely English and that developed in the two centuries following the reformation. Overturning accepted ideas about English protestant attitudes to feast and celebration, David Cressy presents us w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520069404
ISBN-10: 0520069404
Publication Date: 12/7/1989
Pages: 285
Edition: 1st US
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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