Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism The Protestant Discovery of Tradition

This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British Romantic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Savonius-Wroth, Celestina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Ritual, Ceremony, and Custom in the Aftermath of the British Reformations
  • 3. “Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaism”: Erudition, Polemic, and Apologetics in the Study of British Customs
  • 4. The Antiquities of the Common People
  • 5. Embodied Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain: “All Mankind Are the Vulgar in This Respect”
  • 6. Religion in the Bardic Revival
  • 7. Against the Cold Calculus of Modernity
  • 8. Conclusion