History of Christmas Foods and Feasts by Hopley, Claire -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication Also by Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - Introduction: Traditions and Transformations

Mixing old and new traditions Roman origins Gospel stories The literary record The culinary record and note on recipes

CHAPTER 2 - Christmas in the Court of Camelot

A strange tale of a Christmas game Christmas in Camelot The Green Knight and his game Gawain’s journey Feasts, hunts, temptations and the return blow Survival against the odds The death of winter Pictures of a medieval Christmas: games and entertainment Christmas food and feasting Serving Christmas drinking Recipes and ingredients

CHAPTER 3 - Reliving the Christmas Story

Christmas disguisers Mummers and mumming The mystery plays Performance The shepherds’ plays The Wakefield shepherds’ feast The Chester shepherds’ feast The two feasts Reliving Christmas The end of the mystery plays

CHAPTER 4 - The Tudor and Stuart Christmas

Masques Puritan nay-sayers Hallowtide to Candlemas: celebrating the days of Christmas Customs and festivities: wassailing, misrule, Boy Bishops Misrule as the order of the day The spirit of the season: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night No more cakes and ale The Puritans and Christmas fare Robert May’s Bill of Fare for Christmas Day

CHAPTER 5 - Between the Old and the New, 1660 – 1840

Twelfth Night and its cakes Christmas at home Christmas in Jane Austen’s novels Christmas foods Mince pies and other pies of the season Plum porridge, plum pottage and plum pudding Holidays Christmas boxes Pantomimes and other entertainments

CHAPTER 6 - The Pre-Victorian and the New Victorian Christmas

Washington Irving Irving’s influence Wordsworth Dickens and Christmas: Pickwick Papers Dickens and Christmas: outfacing death with A Christmas Carol Everything old becomes new again The spirits of Christmas Father Christmas Father Christmas meets Santa Claus The Christmas Tree Christmas cards Christmas cards today Nineteenth-Century Christmas foods Abandoned Christmas foods Crackers

CHAPTER 7 - Conclusion: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Early Twentieth-Century memories Spreading Christmas around Wartime Christmases Writers at war The post-war years Christmas in children’s books Christmas for adults Twentieth-Century additions and deletions Christmas in the Twenty-First Century

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