the hidden stories behind our Yuletide traditions /
نام نخستين پديدآور
Mark Forsyth.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
[London] UK :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
xviii, 171 pages :
ساير جزييات
illustrations ;
ابعاد
18 cm
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Preface -- 1. Why 25 December? -- 2. The Christmas tree -- 3. Advent -- 4. Christmas carols -- 5. Santa Claus: the biography -- 6. Christmas dinner -- 7. Boxing Day -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"The unpredictable origins and etymologies of our cracking Christmas customs. For something that happens every year of our lives, we really don't know much about Christmas. We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a madman, or that Christmas, etymologically speaking, means 'Go away, Christ'. Nor do we know that Christmas was first celebrated in 243 AD on 28 March - and only moved to 25 December in 354 AD. We're oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering her for a Christmas countdown. And we would never have guessed that the invention of crackers was merely a way of popularizing sweet wrappers. Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully entertaining wordy way."
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Christmas, Miscellanea.
موضوع مستند نشده
Christmas.
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
394
.
2663
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
GT4985
نشانه اثر
.
F673
2016
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )