1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385184603316

Autore

Preston Thomas <1563-1640.>

Titolo

The tryal and execution of Father Henry Garnet, superior provincial of the Jesuits in England for the powder-treason [[electronic resource] /] / collected by Roger Widdrington, a Roman Catholick, and by him addressed unto Pope Paul the Fifth, printed in Latin 1616 in his appendix to his Humble Supplication, p. 124, and thence translated. Now published to make it further evident, that it is no new thing for Jesuits to curse and ban, to justifie a lie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Johnathan Robinson ..., 1679

Descrizione fisica

8 p

Soggetti

Gunpowder Plot, 1605

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Widdrington's real name is given by DNB as Thomas Preston.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957953403321

Autore

Rogers Nicholas

Titolo

Halloween : from Pagan ritual to party night / / Nicholas Rogers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771363-7

0-19-028720-9

1-280-53208-4

0-19-534910-5

0-19-530298-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

394.2646

Soggetti

Halloween - Great Britain - History

Halloween - United States - History

Customs and Folklore

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. SAMHAIN: and the Celtic Origins of Halloween; 2. FESTIVE RITES: Halloween in the British Isles; 3. COMING OVER: Halloween in North America; 4. RAZOR IN THE APPLE: The Struggle for a Safe and Sane Halloween, c. 1920-1990; 5. HALLOWEEN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD; 6. STEPPING OUT; 7. BORDER CROSSINGS; 8. HALLOWEEN AT THE MILLENNIUM; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

'Halloween' explores the holiday's origins and early development in the British Isles, its transition to North America as an ethnic festival and its subsequent place in popular, mass culture as a consumer rite and ritual of transgression.