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The Autumn Celebrations Of The Ritual Calendar Year In The Later-Stuart Period, Alexander James Dove
The Autumn Celebrations Of The Ritual Calendar Year In The Later-Stuart Period, Alexander James Dove
Masters Theses
This thesis discusses the patterns in the celebrations of the autumn ritual calendar of the later-Stuart period. It focuses on the annual celebrations of the Gunpowder Treason and Plot (5th of November) and the Anniversary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth (17th of November). For comparison, the Lord Mayor's Show (29th of October) is studied. The central theme of this thesis is to distinguish between the customs and traditions of the two dominant cultures of the later-Stuart period: elite and non-elite.
This thesis is broken down into three chapters. The first chapter discusses the November celebrations of the later-Stuart period. …