The Ancient English Morris Dance / Michael Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morris dance--History.

Morris dance.

England--Social life and customs.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

This book traces the history of morris dancing in England, from its introduction in the 15th century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living, to its re-invention as an emblem of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the 19th century.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents Page

List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Israhel von Meckenhem, The Morris Dancers (The Art Institute of Chicago, CC 0 public domain).

Figure 1.2: Erasmus Grasser, Morris dancer with headgear like a hunting cap

Morris dancer with a white headband, from the ballroom of the Old Town Hall, Munich, 1480 (Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Angewandte Kunst, Inventory nos K-Ic/228, K-Ic/223, CC B

Figure 3.1: Morris activity, 1507-1569.

Figure 4.1: The Betley window (Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, C.248-1976).

Figure 4.2: Lancaster Castle panel (Image courtesy of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Picture Folders/Folder 6/20).

Figure 4.3: Israhel van Meckenem, Panel with the Dance of the Lovers (in Francis Douce, Illustrations of Shakspeare, plate VIII, London: Longman Hurst, Rees &amp

Orme, 1807).

Figure 4.4: Correspondences of van Meckenem, Betley and Lancaster Castle images.

Figure 4.5: Van Meckenem' s third dancer image and its correlates in Betley window and Lancaster Castle panel.

Figure 5.1: Civic and church support and opposition, 1570-1599.

Figure 6.1: Civic and church support and opposition, 1600-1629.

Figure 6.2: William Kemp, Kemps Nine Daies Wonder, cover. London: Printed by E.A. from Nicholas Ling, 1600.

Figure 6.3: Gray's Inn antimasque: May Lord and Lady, Fools and Baboons, performed by lightningtree (Photo © Michael Heaney).

Figure 6.4: Woodcut from Money is my Master. London: for Francis Coules, n.d.

Figure 6.5: 'The Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace', c. 1620 (detail) (Image © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, accession number: 61).

Figure 7.1: Civic and church support and opposition, 1630-1659.

Figure 7.2: Woodcut from Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces, sig. X1v. London: Printed by M. Simmons, 1650.

Figure 7.3: Attitudes to morris dancing, 1550s to 1650s.

Figure 8.1: Civic events and other encounters with morris dancers, 1660-1685.

Figure 8.2: 'Cromwell Pypeth unto Fairfax' (in Edmund Goldsmid, Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Playing Cards, Temp Charles II, 9. Edinburgh: E. &amp

G. Goldsmid, 1886).

Figure 8.3: Woodcut from The Jovial May-pole Dancers, or, The Merry Morris. [London]: Printed for J. Deacon, [c. 1690].

Figure 8.4: Moorish dance (in Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco, plate facing p. 13. London: Printed for William Cadema, 1673).

Figure 8.5: 'Stanes Morris' (in The English Dancing Master, p. 87. London: Printed by Thomas Harper, 1651).

Figure 8.6: 'Maids Morris' (in The Dancing Master, 7th ed., 3rd supplement, p. 1. London: Printed by E. Jones, 1689).

Figure 8.7: The first page of notation of Mr Isaac's 'The Morris' (Image courtesy of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, QL.5.4).

Figure 8.8: Three Morris Dancers trade token, c.1650 (Image © Museum of London, NN18007).

Figure 8.9: G. Barrett, The Three Morrice Dancers [etching, c 1795] (Image © British Library, Maps K.Top.27.33.1).

Figure 8.10: Morris dancers (in Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, iii:[40]. Chester: For the Author, 1688).

Figure 11.1: Payments to morris dancers from household and personal accounts, 1715-1750.

Figure 11.2: Morris teams visiting Aynho Park, 1722-1735.

Figure 11.3: 'Country around Dixton Manor' (detail) (The Cheltenham Trust and Cheltenham Borough Council © The Wilson/Bridgeman Images).

Figure 12.1: North-west morris contexts, 1748-1800.

Figure 12.2: Morris at elections, 1722-1832.

Figure 13.1: Henry Stacy Marks, 'May Day', 1867 (Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, FA677).

Figure 13.2: 'A View of the Rotundo, House &amp.

Gardens at Ranelagh' (detail), (British Library 840.m.82, public domain).

Figure 13.3 'Morris Dancers at the Crystal Palace', Illustrated News of the World, 24 April 1858, p. 181.

Figure 14.1: 'Trunkles' (adapted from the Headington version in Michael Heaney, 'Trunkles', The Morris Dancer, 2, no. 9 (1990): 136-39.

Figure 14.2: 'Whitsun Ale in Blenheim Park', 1823 (in Thomas Little, Confessions of an Oxonian, plate after 1:170 London: J.J. Stockdale, 1826)

Figure 14.3: 'View from the North Portico of Stowe House, February 1818' (Image courtesy of Bucks Archaeological Society, Discover Bucks Museum, AYBCM: Loan 321.18).

Figure 14.4: 'An Outdoor Feast in Honour of the Coming of Age of the Duke's Heir' (detail) (Image courtesy of Bucks Archaeological Society, Discover Bucks Museum, AYBCM: Loan 321.17).

Figure 14.5: James Danby, 'Celebrations at the Coming of Age of the Marquis of Chandos, Stowe House, September 1844' (detail) (Image courtesy of Reeman Dansie).

Figure 14.6: Nineteenth-century morris-dancing family relationships at Bampton (Adapted with permission from Keith Chandler, Morris Dancing at Bampton until 1914, p. 7. Eynsham: [The Author], 1983).

Figure 14.7: Known extant nineteenth-century south-midlands morrises (Adapted with permission from Keith Chandler, Morris Dancing in the English South Midlands, 1660-1900: A Chronological Gazetteer, figure 5 (p. 17). Enfield Lock: Hisarlik Press, 1993).

Figure 15.1: West-midlands morrises in the 19th century.

Figure 15.2: Charles Stringer,' The Lichfield Greenhill Bower Procession', c. 1800 (watercolour inserted at p. 353 in a copy of Thomas Harwood, The History and Antiquities of the Church and City of Lichfield. Glocester: Cadell and Davies, 1806, Bodleian L.

Figure 15.3: 'Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - the Morris Dancers', Illustrated London News, 25 May 1850, p. 364.

Figure 15.4: George Scharf, 'Morris dancers, January 1841' (in Sketch book. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum, 1900,0725.120.15+. All rights reserved).

Figure 15.5: Brimfield morris dancers, 1909 (Image courtesy of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Roy Dommett collection, RLD/2/5/5).

Figure 15.6: Charles Cattermole, 'Worcestershire mummers', Illustrated London News, 15 January 1859, p. 21.

Figure 16.1: 'Plough Monday' (in William Hone, The Every Day Book, i, 36. London: William Tegg, [1868]).

Figure 17.1: Morris dancing associated with rushcarts and other activities, 1801-1850.

Figure 17.2: Joseph Parry, 'Eccles Wakes Fair, 1822' (detail) (Image © Salford Museum &amp

Art Gallery, 1954-98).

Figure 17.3: 'The Rush-bearers, Lymm, Cheshire' (Image © York Castle Museum, YORCM: DA7636).

Figure 17.4: Warwick Brookes, 'May Day at Bowden, Cheshire' (Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 624-1886).

Figure 17.5: Alexander Wilson, 'Rush Bearing at Long Millgate, Manchester' (detail) (Image: Sphinx Fine Art).

Figure 17.6: 'Rushbearing' (in The Pictorial History of the County of Lancashire, p. 249. London: Routledge, 1844).

Figure 17.7: 'Long Morris' (in Anne G. Gilchrist, 'The Lancashire Rush-Cart and Morris-Dance', Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, 2nd series, 1 (1927): 17-27 (p. 17)).

Figure 17.8: 'Cross Morris' (in Anne G. Gilchrist, 'The Lancashire Rush-Cart and Morris-Dance', Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, 2nd series, 1 (1927): 17-27 (p. 17)).

Figure 18.1: 'Necton Guild' (in William Hone, The Every Day Book, ii, 336. London: William Tegg, [1868])

Figure 18.2: Nineteenth-century morrises in Derbyshire.

Figure 18.3: Taddington morris dance, club feast day, c. 1900 (Image courtesy of University of Sheffield Library, Dave Bathe collection, ACT/97-003/P/1792z).

Figure 18.4: 'Annual ceremony of well dressing at Buxton, Derbyshire' (detail), Illustrated Times, 9 July 1864, p. 24.

Figure 19.1: The Middleton morris dancers, 1886 (in John Graham, Lancashire and Cheshire Morris Dances, p.xvi. London: J. Curwen &amp

Sons, 1911).

Figure 19.2: Godley Hill Morris Dancers advertisement, Hyde &amp

Glossop Weekly News, and North Cheshire Herald, 11 September 1875, p. 1.

Figure 20.1: Godley Hill Morris Dancers, 1882 (http://www.manchestermorrismen.org.uk/arc-photos/towns/target42.html, CC 4.0 BY-SA).

Figure 20.2: Leyland Morris Dancers with staves on the festival ground, 1890 (Photo courtesy of Roy Smith).

Figure 20.3: Preston Royal Morris Dancers, c. 1893 (Photo courtesy of Pruw Boswell).

Figure 20.4: Juvenile morris teams in the north-west.

Figure 20.5: Tiller Girls as morris dancers, Western Mail, 27 February 1894, p. 6.

Figure 21.1: Giant and morris dancers at Salisbury (in Frances Child, The Spinster at Home in The Close at Salisbury, facing p. 96. Salisbury: W.R. Brodie, 1844).

Figure 22.1: Shakespearean Bidford Morris Dancers outside the Falcon Inn (in Roy Judge, 'D'Arcy Ferris and the Bidford Morris', Folk Music Journal, 4.5 (1984), 443-80 (p. 456)).

Figure 22.2: Headington Quarry Morris Dancers, c. 1875 (Image © Historic England CC71:00070).

Figure 23.1: Espérance morris dancers (in Mary Neal, The Espérance Morris Book, 2nd ed., p. xiv. London: J. Curwen, 1910).

Figure 23.2: Notation for the cross-step (in Cecil J. Sharp and Herbert C. MacIlwaine, The Morris Book, Part II, p.12. London: Novello, 1909).

Figure 23.3: William Kimber, 1912 (Image courtesy of Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Photograph Collection mo/Hea/1912+/358).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

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1803273879

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1803274727

OCLC:

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