The History of Morris Dancing, 1438-1750

by John Forrest

Morris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. Traditional scholarship on this custom has been based on the assumption that morris dancing is one of the pagan calendar rituals, a preconception held by many folklorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Now, building upon his previous work with Michael Heaney of the Bodleian Library in Annals of Early Morris , John Forrest carefully...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802009212
• ISBN13: 9780802009210
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"