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The Rise And Fall Of Merry England:

The Ritual Year 1400-1700
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Oxford University Press, 1996 - History - 366 pages
Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.
  

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Prof Hutton is the Idler's favourite historian. He is both brilliant and entertaining. In person he is full of charm and humour: he is coming to our shop this Christmas to give a talk, and we always ... Read full review

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
The Ritual Tear tn England C 1490C 1540 5
49
Reformation of Religion
78
Reformation of Manners
111
The Battlt for Meery England
153
Puritan Revolution
200
Meery Equilthrtum
227
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About the author (1996)


Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Charles II: King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1989), The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658-1667 (1993), The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (1996), and The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (1999)

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