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The Rise and Fall of Merry England

The Ritual Year 1400–1700

by Ronald Hutton

Using churchwardens' accounts and other records, Hutton reconstructs the festive and ritual calendar of late medieval and early modern England, including May games, maypoles and Christmas revels. He traces how the Reformation and Puritanism dismantled and partly restored these customs.

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