Judith Flanders

Christmas

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The acclaimed author of The Victorian House and The Victorian City tells the story of the celebration of Christmas, from mummers' plays to the invention of Sellotape, revealing much fascinating new information and shattering many myths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9781529003567
• ISBN-10: 1529003563
• Artikelnr.: 53507998

Autorenporträt

Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2001), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed(2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens¿ London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014), Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.

Inhaltsangabe

A partial holiday calendar
January
1 Feast of the Circumcision, or Holy Name of Jesus
5 Twelfth Night
6 Epiphany
February
2 Candlemas
March
25 Lady Day
June
24 Midsummer
September
29 Michaelmas
November
1 All Saints' Day
2 All Souls' Day
11 St Martin
December
6 St Nicholas
13 St Lucy of Syracuse
21 St Thomas the Apostle
25 Christmas Day
26 St Stephen
27 St John the Evangelist
28 Feast of the Holy Innocents
31 St Sylvester