Sacred Sacrilegious?: Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing in Early 17th-Century England

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Sacred or Sacrilegious?
Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing
in Early 17th-Century England

The following is the abstract for my paper that was discussed at the 20 November 2009 session of the Center for Research in Festive Culture Seminar at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The seminar also looked at a paper by Shelley Salamensky.

Abstract:
In 1619 Nicolas Millichap organized a morris dance on Pentecost Sunday in a village in Shropshire. He "borrowed" a communion cloth to serve as a kind of flag for the dancers and was condemned in church court for it. Was this a case of sacrilege, as modern commentators have alleged, or a confused clash between old customs and new precedents? Maps and photographs accompany the paper.

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Sacred or Sacrilegious? Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing in Early 17th-Century England

Sacred or Sacrilegious?
Conflicted Attitudes Towards Festive Dancing
in Early 17th-Century England