Stations of the Sun :A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Stations of the Sun :A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
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Published:
15 February, 2001
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780192854483 |
| ISBN10 | 0192854488 |
| Number Of Pages | 560 |
| Item Weight | 409 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 198 x 32 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Oxford University Press |
| Format | paperback |
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a fascinating volume, which any future study of calendar rituals - or of 'pagan residues' in popular culture - will have to take into account. * Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. *
Students of religion will be impressed by the ample evidence the book provides, not for the survival of pagan religious practices in a Christian era, but for the survival of Catholic practices in a Protestant one. * Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. *
Well produced and written in a pleasing style, it is a rich source of information about late-medieval calendar customs whose scope extends far beyond the Middle Ages. Stations of the Sun belongs in the reference collection of any college library. * Margaret Cormack, Speculum - A Jnl of Medieval Studies, 2000. *
a tour de force from one of the liveliest and most wide-ranging of practising English historians this unfailingly stimulating, learned and engaging book places a relatively neglected aspect of English social history firmly on the map. * Eamon Duffy, TLS *
Author's Bio
Ronald Hutton is Reader in History at the University of Bristol.