History Of Morris Dancing 1438 1750

Author : John Forrest
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1487554338

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History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750 by John Forrest Pdf

Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now, building upon his previous work with Michael Heaney of the Bodleian Library in Annals of Early Morris, John Forrest carefully analyses a wealth of evidence to show that morris dancing does not, in fact have pagan or ancient origins. His examination of early documentation draws morris traditions into the wider area of communal customs and public celebrations, showing the passage of dance ideas between groups of people who until now have been considered folklorically distinct. Careful, detailed, and encyclopedic, The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 is an essential reference work for specialists in English drama and social historians of the period.

Author : Lynneth Miller Renberg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277476

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Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640 by Lynneth Miller Renberg Pdf

A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.

Author : Scott Oldenburg,Kristin M. S. Bezio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000465419

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Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace by Scott Oldenburg,Kristin M. S. Bezio Pdf

Religion and the Medieval and Early Modern Global Marketplace brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to examine the intersection, conflict, and confluence of religion and the market before 1700. Each chapter analyzes the unique interplay of faith and economy in a different locale: Syria, Ethiopia, France, Iceland, India, Peru, and beyond. In ten case studies, specialists of archaeology, art history, social and economic history, religious studies, and critical theory address issues of secularization, tolerance, colonialism, and race with a fresh focus. They chart the tensions between religious and economic thought in specific locales or texts, the complex ways that religion and economy interacted with one another, and the way in which matters of faith, economy, and race converge in religious images of the pre- and early modern periods. Considering the intersection of faith and economy, the volume questions the legacy of early modern economic and spiritual exceptionalism, and the ways in which prosperity still entangles itself with righteousness. The interdisciplinary nature means that this volume is the perfect resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars working across multiple areas including history, literature, politics, art history, global studies, philosophy, and gender studies in the medieval and early modern periods.

Author : John Forrest
Publisher : Clarke & Company Limited
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 022767944X

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The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 by John Forrest Pdf

Morris dancing is one of the more individual of English folk customs and one that has been greatly misunderstood. Seen as a descendant of pagan folk ritual, the tradition of morris dancing has been based on calendar customs and distorted by preconceptions imposed on it by the folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. John Forrest has carefully analysed the wealth of evidence to show that morris dancing does not in fact have pagan or ancient origins. His examination of the early documentation traces the passage of dance ideas between groups of people who have conventionally been considered folklorically distinct and ties morris traditions into the wider area of communal customs and public celebrations. Twenty years in the making and impeccably researched with a huge treasury of source material, A History of Morris Dancing 1458-1750 is an essential reference work for anthropologists, social historians, and specialists in English literature.

Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317036524

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'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 by Frances Timbers Pdf

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

Author : Ronda Arab,Laurie Ellinghausen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031355646

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Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama by Ronda Arab,Laurie Ellinghausen Pdf

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality. This collection of essays – featuring a range of international contributors – explores a broad range of questions about the intersectional factors influencing class status in early modern England, including how cultural behaviors and non-class social categories affected status and social mobility, in what ways hegemonies of elite prerogatives could be disrupted or entrenched by the myriad of intersectional factors that informed social identity, and how class position informed the embodied experience and expression of affect, gender, sexuality, and race as well as relationships to place, space, land, and the natural and civic worlds.

Author : John Forrest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0227679431

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The History of Morris Dancing, 1483-1750 by John Forrest Pdf

Author : John Cutting
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015070682292

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History and the Morris Dance by John Cutting Pdf

In the middle of the 1970s, a storm swept through the world of Morris: women had started to dance what, up to then, had been widely considered to be a men-only tradition. John Cutting had joined Herga Morris in 1972 and was thus a newcomer at the time. What, then, was this Morris tradition? Was it entertainment? Was it some mystical rite?

Author : John Forrest
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802009212

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The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 by John Forrest Pdf

Morris dancing is one of the more peculiar of English folk customs, greatly misunderstood. Seen as a descendant of pagan folk ritual, scholastic history of morris dancing has been based on calendar customs and other preconceptions. Anthropologist John Forrest shows that morris dancing has neither pagan nor ancient origins, but was a product of its time. 28 illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil J. Sharp and Herbert C. Macilwaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Dance
ISBN : OCLC:2841686

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The Morris Book by Cecil J. Sharp and Herbert C. Macilwaine Pdf

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781487586348

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Citizen Comedy in the Age of Shakespeare by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy. Most studies of the period focus on major authors; this one follows recurring themes and motifs, through a variety of plays by many authors from the moralizing comedies of the boys' companies. Professor Leggatt provides not only a fresh perspective on familiar plays by such figures as Jonson, Middleton, and Dekker, but also a new look at a number of neglected comedies, some by unfamiliar authors, some by major authors working together. Standard figures – the usurer, the prodigal, and the prostitute – and standard plots – notably intrigues based on money or sex (or both) – are traced to show the changes that occur in apparently stereotyped material at the hands of individual authors. The result is to display the range and internal variety of a genre that too often is seen as all of a piece, and to show the different ways in which social thinking can interact with the demands and comic form. This book will interest students of Renaissance English drama, both for its treatment of a neglected type of play and for its comments on individual citizen comedies. Those who are concerned with drama as a vehicle for social commentary will find many points for discussion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015046780881

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Canadian Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry N. Michael,Maksim G. Levin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1963-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487591090

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Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia by Henry N. Michael,Maksim G. Levin Pdf

This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated, because of the lack of field work or because the materials on them had not been analysed and published. Levin has reviewed the old materials, gathered and analysed hitherto unpublished ones, and personally surveyed many of the peoples as a member of the Russian Northeastern Expedition. He makes use of all the data of physical anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, and linguistics on the peoples he describes and has thus provided a definitive work on a nearly forgotten segment of mankind inhabiting an extensive territory. Volume III in the series Anthropology of the North: Translations from Russian Sources sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America and under the general editorship of H.N. Michael, Temple University.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802077811

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The Myth of Deliverance by Northrop Frye Pdf

In these essays Northrop Frye addresses a question which preoccupied him throughout his long and distinguished career - the conception of comedy, particularly Shakespearean comedy, and its relation to human experience. In most forms of comedy, and certainly in the New Comedy with which Shakespeare was concerned, the emphasis is on moving towards a climax in which the end incorporates the beginning. Such a climax is a vision of deliverance or expanded energy and freedom. Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the 'problem comedies': "Measure for Measure," "All's Well That Ends Well," and "Troilus and Cressida," showing how they anticipate the romances of Shakespeare's final period.