The Rise and Fall of Merry England

The Ritual Year 1400 to 1700

Ronald Hutton

Paperback · Oxford University Press · 1994

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What became of May games, church ales, Plough Monday and the rest between the late Middle Ages and the Restoration. Ronald Hutton uses churchwardens’ accounts to show how the old festive calendar was pulled apart by the Reformation, and partly put back together.

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