H 245 x W 174 mm
530 pages
94 figures (colour throughout)
Published Mar 2023
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803273860
Digital: 9781803273877
Keywords
Morris Dance; Englishness; Custom; Folklore; Social History
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This book traces the history of morris dancing in England, from its introduction in the 15th century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living, to its re-invention as an emblem of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the 19th century.
Preface ;
Introduction ;
Part I: Emergence (1448-1569) ;
Chapter 1: First signs ;
Chapter 2: Guilds ;
Chapter 3: Parish entertainments ;
Chapter 4: The first 120 years ;
Part II: Contention (1570-1659) ;
Chapter 5: Rumblings 1570-1599 ;
Chapter 6: Attack 1600-1629 ;
Chapter 7: Suppression 1630-1659 ;
Part III: Fragmentation (1660-1800) ;
Chapter 8: Restoration and the later Stuarts ;
Chapter 9: Eighteenth-century entertainment ;
Chapter 10: Lexicographers and scholars ;
Chapter 11: Hanoverian communities and Whitsun ales ;
Chapter 12: Beyond the Whitsun ale ;
Part IV: Re-emergence (1801-1899) ;
Chapter 13: Antiquaries and artistes ;
Chapter 14: South-midlands morris ;
Chapter 15: West-midlands morrises ;
Chapter 16: East of England ;
Chapter 17: North-west morris 1801-1850 ;
Chapter 18: Fêtes and festivals ;
Chapter 19: The decline of the rushcarts ;
Chapter 20: Carnival processions ;
Chapter 21: Other morrises ;
Chapter 22: Fin de siècle ;
Part V: Revival (1899 – present) ;
Chapter 23: Defining a revival ;
Chapter 24: North-west morris 1900-1930 ;
Chapter 25: The revival after Sharp ;
Chapter 26: The second revival ;
Chapter 27: The modern English morris dance ;
Bibliography ;
Index