{"id":923,"date":"2012-12-11T15:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2012-12-11T15:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T14:25:53","slug":"to-fast-or-feast-celebrating-christmas-in-the-eighteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/12\/11\/to-fast-or-feast-celebrating-christmas-in-the-eighteenth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"To fast or feast? Celebrating Christmas in the eighteenth century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/11\/to-fast-or-feast-celebrating-christmas-in-the-eighteenth-century\/6-nov-001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-958\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-958\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-958\" alt=\"A discourse concerning the lawfulness and right manner of keeping Christmas and other Christian holy-days, by way of question and answer : intended for the use of a charity-school. London: Printed for, and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side, 1708 New College Library Z.851\/3\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/12\/6-nov-001.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/12\/6-nov-001.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/12\/6-nov-001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/12\/6-nov-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A discourse concerning the lawfulness and right manner of keeping Christmas and other Christian holy-days, by way of question and answer : intended for the use of a charity-school. London: Printed for, and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side, 1708 New College Library Z.851\/3<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many folk will be\u00a0going to\u00a0Christmas lunches and parties this week &#8211;\u00a0including New College Library staff.\u00a0Outside our office window the Edinburgh Christmas fair is in full (and noisy) swing, celebrating the season.<\/p>\n<p>This eighteenth century\u00a0pamphlet, \u00a0<em>A discourse concerning the lawfulness and right manner of keeping Christmas, <\/em>\u00a0gives an eighteenth century view on seasonal celebrations.\u00a0 It takes the form of a dialogue between a master and scholar, prefacing the discussion with the quotation of Bible texts that urge sincere and temperate behaviour. It\u00a0unpicks the theology of Christmas from an\u00a0early eighteenth century Anglican point of view,\u00a0 negotiating the scriptural and historical justifications of the observance of Christmas as a holy day and the contemporary\u00a0differences in practice\u00a0with other Protestant Churches. The author\u00a0looks back on\u00a0the abolishment of Christmas celebrations (including plum pudding) under\u00a0Oliver Cromwell&#8217;s\u00a0Puritan regime after the English Civil War. It is possible both this period and the Restoration of 1660 may have been within the author&#8217;s living memory.<\/p>\n<p>This book is also <a title=\"Link to library catalogue record\" href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?searchId=845&amp;recCount=10&amp;recPointer=0&amp;bibId=1494610\">available online <\/a>to University of Edinburgh users via Eighteenth Century Collections Online, where it can be read online in full.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0item is from\u00a0New College Library&#8217;s\u00a0Z Collection, currently being catalogued as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many folk will be\u00a0going to\u00a0Christmas lunches and parties this week &#8211;\u00a0including New College Library staff.\u00a0Outside our office window the Edinburgh Christmas fair is in full (and noisy) swing, celebrating the season. This eighteenth century\u00a0pamphlet, \u00a0A discourse concerning the lawfulness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/12\/11\/to-fast-or-feast-celebrating-christmas-in-the-eighteenth-century\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[42,43,44,45,64,67,78,131,154,179,180,195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-eT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}