Christmastide – Its History, Festivities, and Carols (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Holiday Celebrations in Britain from Old Ages to Modern TimesBy William Sandys
Length8h 55m
About this audiobook
Christmastide – Its History, Festivities, and Carols is an antiquarian study of Christmas as ceremony, social custom, and song. Sandys traces the season from pre-Christian winter rites and medieval ecclesiastical observance to English domestic revelry, feasting, mumming, wassailing, and the carol tradition. Written in a learned yet genial Victorian prose, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century recovery of national folklore and popular devotion, combining historical citation, anecdote, and lyric preservation. William Sandys, a London solicitor and accomplished antiquary, was deeply engaged in the study of early English literature and music. His earlier work collecting Christmas carols helped restore many traditional songs to public attention, and his legal training perhaps sharpened his documentary habits: he weighs sources, quotes old authorities, and treats festive customs as cultural evidence. The book reflects an age eager to reconcile modernity with inherited communal ritual. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Christmas beyond sentiment: as a layered historical institution shaped by religion, folklore, music, and household practice. Scholars of Victorian culture, hymnody, popular antiquities, and English seasonal tradition will find it especially rewarding, while general readers will enjoy its humane curiosity and richly textured account of the festival's enduring imaginative power.
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Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the Original New Testament of Jesus Christ (Annotated)
16Music to Carols.
2Chapter I.
17A Virgin Most Pure.
3Chapter II.
18A Child This Day is Born.
4Chapter III.
19The Lord at First Had Adam Made.
5Chapter IV.
20The First Nowell.
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6Chapter V.
21This New Christmas Carol.
7Chapter VI.
22God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen.
8Chapter VII.
23Saint Stephen.
9Chapter VIII.
24God’s Dear Son.
10Chapter IX.
25To-morrow Shall Be My Dancing Day.
11Chapter X.
26I Saw Three Ships.
12Chapter XI.
27Joseph was an Old Man.
13Carols.
28In Those Twelve Days.
14A Mock Play.
29Memorable Quotes
15Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon.
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