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Introduction

Since prehistory, festivals and rituals have marked the progress of the year. Their value was recognised during the French and Russian revolutions as well as in Francoist and post-Francoist Spain and communist and post-communist Eastern Europe. This is the second of two seminars in which we will examine the development of these festivals and rituals. We will divide into two groups: one group will focus on festivals and rituals from May to July and one group will focus on festivals and rituals from August to October.

Seminar Question

Compare and contrast the development of festivals and rituals between May and October across Europe and the British Isles.

Required Reading and Viewing

• Hutton, Ronald, (Oxford, 2001) [Each of you should read ONE of the chapters for the months your group is studying]
• Each of you should watch Ben Edge, (2024), focusing in particular on rituals held in the months your group is studying. The film is divided into chapters with the date of the event given at the beginning of each chapter.
• Each of you should read ONE article or book chapter from the Further Reading. This should focus on festivals and rituals held in the months your group is studying in countries other than England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

Further Reading

Bennett, Margaret, ed., (Edinburgh, 1992)

Berezin, Mabel, 'Colonizing Time: Rhythms of Fascist Ritual in Verona,' in Mabel Berezin, (Ithaca, NY, 1997), 141-95.

Billington, Sandra, 鈥樷��, Folklore 119/1 (2008), 41–57

Brand, John, Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions, ed. Henry Ellis, 2 vols (London, 1813), .

Camporesi, Piero, , trans. Joan Krakover Hall (Cambridge, 1993)

Carbon, Jan-Mathieu, 'Ritual Cycles: Calendars and Festivals', in , ed. Esther Eidinow, and Julia Kindt (Oxford, 2015), 537-50.

膶aval, Sa拧a, 鈥樷��, World Archaeology 50/2 (2018), 300-22.

Conze, Linda, 鈥樷��, Journal of Modern European History 16/4 (2018), 463–86.

Cressy, David, (London, 1989)

Davies, Owen, and Ceri Houlbrook, (Manchester, 2025), Chapter 1.

Evans, E. Estyn, (1957; rept. New York, 2000)

Fabbrini, Marco, 鈥樷��, Folklore 120/2 (2009), 157–75.

Ginzburg, Carlo, , trans. John and Anne Tedeschi (Baltimore, 1992)

H氓land, Evy Johanne, (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017)

Hannant, Sara, (London, 2011)

Harris, Max, (Austin, TX, 2003)

Hiiem盲e, Mall, 鈥樷��, Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 3 (1997), 60-74

Hiiem盲e, Mall, 鈥�', Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 1 (1996), 9-25

Hole, Christina, (Oxford, 1995)

Hutton, Ronald, 鈥樷��, Folklore 119/3, (2008), 251-273

Kingshill, Sophia, and Jennifer Westwood, (London, 2014)

Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz, , rev. ed (New York, 1996)

Langeslag, P. S., (Cambridge, 2015)

Lindahl, Carl, John McNamara and John Lindow, eds, , 2 vols (Oxford, 2000)

Lyle, Emily, 鈥樷��, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 23 (2003), 184-99

MacNeill, M谩ire, 鈥樷��, 叠茅补濒辞颈诲别补蝉 56 (1988), 93–96.

McCluskey, S.C., 鈥樷��, Journal for the History of Astronomy 20(13) (1989) 1-19

Mills, David, (Toronto, 1998)

Muir, Edward, , 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2005)

Murgoci, Agnes, 鈥樷��, Folklore 40/3 (1929), 245–61

Noyes, Dorothy, (Philadelphia, 2003)

O鈥橦are, Patricia, 鈥樷��, 叠茅补濒辞颈诲别补蝉 76 (2008), 23–88.

O虂 hO虂ga虂in, Da虂ithi虂, (Woodbridge, 2006)

Orme, Nicholas, (New Haven, 2021)

Ovid, , ed. and trans. Anne Wiseman and Peter Wiseman (Oxford, 2011)

Owen, Trefor M., Welsh Folk Customs (Cardiff, 1959)

Ozouf, Mona, Festivals and the French Revolution, trans. Alan Sheridan (Cambridge, Mass., 1988)

, ed. Francis Young (Leeds, 2022)

Parker, Eleanor, (London, 2022)

Robertson, Noel, Festivals and Legends: The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual (Toronto, 1992)

Roud, Steve, The English Year: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Nation's Customs and Festivals, from May Day to Mischief Night (Harmondsworth, 2008)

Ruiz, Teofilo F., A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Princeton, NJ, 2012)

艩aknys, 沤ilvytis Bernardas, 'The Urban Ritual Year. Religion, Ethnicity and Ideology', in , ed. Ekaterina Anastasova, Svetoslava Toncheva (Sofia, 2018), pp. 164-77.

艩aknys, 沤ilvytis, 鈥楴ational and Confessional Features of Festivals and Holidays: Structure of the Ritual Year in Modern Lithuania and Bulgaria鈥�, Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies 4 (2021), 199-222

Salve, Kristi, 鈥楩isherman's Work and the Sea in the Livonian Folk Calendar鈥�, Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 1 (1996), 26-50

Salzman, Michele Renee, 'Structuring Time: Festivals, Holidays and the Calendar', in The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome, ed. Paul Erdkamp (Cambridge, 2013), 478-96

Sedakova, Irina Aleksandrovna, 鈥楻estructuring of the Ritual Year in Post-Socialist Countries鈥�, Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 47 (2011), 181-84 [You should read two articles or book chapters plus this article]

Senn, Harry, 鈥楻omanian Werewolves: Seasons, Ritual, Cycles鈥� Folklore 93/2 (1982), 206–15.

Shusterman, Noah, Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon (Washington, DC, 2010)

Simpson, Jacqueline, and Steve Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford, 2003)

Smith, Kate, 鈥樷��, Folklore 119/2 (2008), 142–59

Von Geldern, James, Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 (Berkeley, 1993)

Warner, Elizabeth A, 鈥樷��, Folklore 122/2 (2011), 155–75

Westwood, Jennifer, and Jacqueline Simpson, The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys (Harmondsworth, 2005)

Westwood, Jennifer, and Sophia Kingshill, The Lore of Scotland: A Guide to Scottish Legends (London, 2009)

Williams-Davies, J., 鈥樷�淎 Time to Sow and a Time to Reap鈥�: The Welsh Farmer鈥檚 Calendar鈥�, Folklore 94/2 (1983), 229–34

Electronic Resources

Ben Edge, (2024)