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From the twelve days of Christmas to the Spring traditions of
Valentine, Shrovetide, and Easter eggs, through May Day revels and
Midsummer fires, and on to the waning of the year, Harvest Home,
and Hallowe'en; Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey
through the ritual year in Britain.
His comprehensive study covers all the British Isles and the whole
sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present
day. Great and lesser, ancient and modern, Christian and pagan, all
rituals are treated with the same attention. The result is a
colorful and absorbing history in which Ronald Hutton challenges
many common assumptions about the customs of the past and the
festivals of the present debunking many myths and illuminates the
history of the calendar we live by.
Stations of the Sun is the first complete scholarly work to cover
the full span of British rituals, challenging the work of
specialists from the late Victorian period onwards, reworking our
picture of the field thoroughly, and raising issues for historians
of every period.
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Finlaystone (Paperback)
George MacMillan, John MacMillan, Judy Hutton, David MacMillan, Andrew MacMillan, Arthur MacMillian
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R1,016
Discovery Miles 10 160
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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The illustrated biography of a Scottish country house, set beside
the River Clyde, and of the people who made it their home over the
past 850 years Written by four brothers, their sister and the
eldest member of the next generation, Finlaystone offers an
insidersa view of the house, its beautiful gardens and the
surrounding estate. They tell about the lives of its former owners,
many of whom played prominent roles in Scottish military,
political, religious and cultural affairs. As Scotland moved
forward from centuries of feuds between large feudal landowners to
the reformation, the age of enlightenment and the industrial
revolution, the building evolved from a fortress to a modest but
attractive family home in 1746. Its present form as an imposing
late Victorian mansion dates from when it was modernised and
extended in 1900 by George Jardine Kidston, the great-grandfather
of the older authors, who had grown wealthy from running one of the
worlda s earliest steamship companies. In its hey-day, Finlaystone
was managed for the comfort and leisure of its owners by a bevy of
household servants living in a wing of the house, and by an army of
workers, including gardeners, foresters, game-keepers, joiners and
a laundry-maid. The prosperity that had made such a lavish life
possible, however, soon started to decline, with George Kidstona s
death in 1909, followed just 5 years later by war, the economic
depression in the 1930s, and then World War II. Unlike many other
large country houses, Finlaystone remains a family home, kept
afloat largely by the hard work and adaptability of the members of
the family who reflect in this book on the joys and travails that
this implied.
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