Christmas Customs and Traditions : Their History and Significance Paperback - 2011
by Miles, Clement A
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Christmas Customs and Traditions : Their History and Significance
- Author Miles, Clement A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Thus
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Incorporated, New York
- Date 2011-11
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 592249-6
- ISBN 9780486233543 / 0486233545
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.47 x 5.41 x 0.85 in (21.51 x 13.74 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Holiday: Christmas
- Library of Congress subjects Christmas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76009183
- Dewey Decimal Code 394.268
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From the rear cover
Based on extensive research, this book is a comprehensive account of Christmas customs and traditions in both their pagan and Christian aspects. Tracing the pagan survivals in holiday practices associated with not just Christmas but also the entire holiday season from All Saints Day to Epiphany, the author illuminates such practices and manifestations as ceremonial feasting and drinking, carol singing, bull-baiting, divination by young women to discover the identities of their future husbands, men masquerading as women and women masquerading as men, the Knecht Ruprecht and the Tomte Gubbe, the Frauen, the Yule log, the Christmas tree, Christmas decorations and gifts, special Christmas cakes, and much more. There is also substantial coverage of Christmas poetry and song, Christmas in liturgy and popular devotion, Christmas drama, and the pre-Christian winter festivals.
With its insightful writing and wide scholarship, this book is an important contribution to the understanding of the most popular holiday in the Western world. It will appeal to those of all faiths, and will be enjoyed for browsing as well as for serious study.
Unabridged republication of the original (1912) edition, titled Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan.
