Observations on Popular Antiquities de John Brand

Observations on Popular Antiquities

John Brand

This antiquarian volume contains John Brand¿s 1777 treatise; ¿Observations on Popular Antiquities¿. It is a comprehensive catalogue of popular festivals and customs of the common folk of the time, with reflections on which should be kept and which should be relinquished. Contents include: ¿Of visiting Wells and Fountains¿, ¿The Original of this Custom¿, ¿The Naming of Great Antiquity¿, ¿The Worship paid them by the Papists, was Gross Idolatry¿, ¿Of Omens¿, ¿Their Original¿, ¿The Observation of them Sinful¿, ¿Of the Devil¿s Appearing with a Cloven Foot¿, etcetera. Many vintage texts such as this - particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before - are increasingly hard to come by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Paperback (3)	205^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.
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Cambridge University Press – 7 dec 2011	464^.70 lei 6-8 săpt.
Cambridge University Press – 7 dec 2011	494^.00 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Express

Paperback (3)

205^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hadamard Press – 4 apr 2010

205^.33 lei 6-8 săpt.

Cambridge University Press – 7 dec 2011

464^.70 lei 6-8 săpt.

Cambridge University Press – 7 dec 2011

494^.00 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Editor's advertisement; Preface; New Year's Eve; New Year's Day; Twelfth Night; St. Agnes's Day or Eve, Jan. 21st; St. Vincent's Day, Jan. 22d; St. Paul's Day, Jan. 25th; Candlemas Day, Feb. 2d; St. Blaze's Day, Feb. 3d; Valentine's Day, Feb. 14th; Collop or Shrove Monday; Shrove-tide, or Shrove Tuesday; Ash-Wednesday; St. David's Day, March 1st; St. Patrick's Day, March 17th; Mid-Lent Sunday; Palm Sunday; All Fool's Day, April 1st; Shere Thursday, also Maundy Thursday; Good Friday; Easter Eve; Easter Day; Easter eggs; Easter holidays; Lifting on Easter holidays; Hoke Day; St. George's Day, April 23d; St. Mark's Day or Eve; Parochial perambulations in Rogation Week. Ascension Day or Holy Thursday; May Day customs; May Poles; Morris dancers; St. Urban's Day, May 25th; Royal Oak Day, May 29th; Whitsuntide; Trinity, or Trinity Sunday, Even.; Eve of Thursday after Trinity Sunday; St. Barnabas Day, June 11th; St. Vitus's Day, June 15th; Corpus Christi Day, and Plays, June 14th; Summer Solstice. Midsummer Eve. The Vigil of St. John the Baptist's Day; St. Peter's Day, June 29th; St. Ulric, July 4th; St. Swithin's Day, July 15th; St. Margaret's Day, July 20th; St. Bridget, July 23d; St. James's Day, July 25th; Gule of August, commonly called Lammass Day; Assumption of the Virgin Mary, August 15th; St. Roch's Day, August 16th; St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24th; Holy-Rood-Day, Septemb. 14th; Michaelmas, Septemb. 29th; St. Ethelburgh's Day, October 11th; St. Simon and St. Jude's Day, October 28th; Allhallow Even.; The Fifth of November; Martinmas, Novemb. 11th; Queen Elizabeth's accession, Novemb. 17th; St. Clement's Day, Novemb. 23d; St. Catharine's Day, Novemb. 24th; St. Andrew's Day, Novemb. 30th; St. Nicholas's Day, Decemb. 6th; On the montem at Eton; Customs a little before, at, or about Christmas; Of the Yule clog, or block, burnt on Christmas Eve; Of the word Yule, formerly used to signify Christmas; Sports, games, etc. at Christmas; St. Stephen's Day, Decemb. 26th; St. John the Evangelist, Decemb. 27th; Childermas or Holy Innocents' Day; Country wakes, called also feasts of dedication, revellings, rush-bearings, and in the north of England hoppings; Harvest home, alias Mell Supper, Kern or Churn supper, or Feast of Ingathering; The feast of sheep shearing; Saturday afternoon; The borrowed days; Days lucky or unlucky; Cock crowing, time of the morning so called; Strewing churches with flowers on days of humiliation and thanksgiving; Cock-fighting; Bull-running in the town of Stamford; Additions to Vol. 1.