The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland by Gwen Kennedy Neville

The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland

Gwen Kennedy Neville

176 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion
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Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals, silver bands and pipe bands, furling medieval banners, lavish costumes, and singers and actors--the "Common Riding" is an elaborate, little-studied ritual phenomenon of the border towns of Scotland...

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