Christmas: Its Origin and Associations (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Cultural History of Christmas Origins, Folklore, Customs, and Festive TraditionsBy William Francis Dawson
Length15h 13m
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Christmas: Its Origin and Associations (Illustrated Edition) is an antiquarian yet lively cultural history tracing the festival from its pre-Christian and early Christian antecedents through the customs, symbols, and social practices that shaped Victorian and Edwardian observance. Dawson's prose is learned without being forbidding, combining historical anecdote, folklore, liturgical reference, and seasonal sentiment. The illustrations deepen its documentary charm, situating the work within the nineteenth-century tradition of popular scholarship that sought to recover the origins of familiar domestic rituals. William Francis Dawson writes as an informed compiler and interpreter of tradition, attentive to the ways religious commemoration, communal festivity, and household practice intertwine. His interest in Christmas reflects a broader period fascination with medieval survivals, folk customs, carols, evergreens, feasting, and charitable ideals. The book suggests an author concerned not merely with dates and doctrines, but with the emotional and social continuities by which a sacred feast becomes a shared cultural inheritance. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Christmas history, folklore, religious culture, and the evolution of holiday customs. It will especially appeal to those who enjoy classic illustrated nonfiction and historically grounded reflections on familiar traditions. Dawson's work remains a valuable companion for anyone wishing to see Christmas not as a fixed modern celebration, but as a richly layered observance shaped by centuries of belief, memory, and communal imagination.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length15 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Mystery Play in Honour of the Nativity of our Lord (Annotated)
2Christmas: Its Origin and Associations (Illustrated Edition)
3CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRISTMAS.
4CHAPTER II. THE EARLIER CELEBRATIONS OF THE FESTIVAL.
5CHAPTER III. EARLY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN BRITAIN.
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6CHAPTER IV. CHRISTMAS, FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO MAGNA CHARTA.
7CHAPTER V. CHRISTMAS, FROM MAGNA CHARTA TO THE END OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES.
8CHAPTER VI. CHRISTMAS UNDER HENRY VII. AND HENRY VIII.
9CHAPTER VII. CHRISTMAS UNDER EDWARD VI., MARY, AND ELIZABETH.
10CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTMAS UNDER JAMES I.
11CHAPTER IX. CHRISTMAS UNDER CHARLES I. AND THE COMMONWEALTH.
12CHAPTER X. CHRISTMAS FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE II.
13CHAPTER XI. MODERN CHRISTMASES AT HOME.
14CHAPTER XII. MODERN CHRISTMASES ABROAD. (pt. 1)
15CHAPTER XII. MODERN CHRISTMASES ABROAD. (pt. 2)
16CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUDING CAROL SERVICE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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