Bonfires & Bells National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
by David Cressy
2004 · Paperback
ISBN 9780750936422
Book details
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Sutton
- ISBN-13
- 9780750936422
- ISBN-10
- 0750936428
- Pages
- 271
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
About this book
Following the Reformation, bonfires and bells were the most public markers of a new calendar that was uniquely English and that developed in the 200 years following it. David Cressy presents the reader with a picture of an English people who were at odds with the Puritan killjoys of their day.