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Glastonbury
From Marc Bolan headlining in 1970 and David Bowie and Hawkwind playing to a field of 10,000 in 1971, the Glastonbury festival has mushroomed over three decades into a cultural phenomenon that now sees 80-90,000 revellers head for the West Country every June. Thousands more watch it at home on TV. George Mckay's history of the festival - and wider festival culture in Britain -- traces the changing nature of the event, explores its roots in the town of Glastonbury and the local landscape and early free festivals, looks at the music and musicians involved (Nik Turner, ex-Hawkwind, The Levellers, and Tom Robinson are among the interviewees), talks to festival-goers and Michael Eavis, the organizer, tackles the festival's more difficult years (drugs, violence, rioting new-age travellers) and generally celebrates the mud and the excess...
Glastonbury
Sweeping through 1500 years of history, Glastonbury tells the story of Christianity in England--from the first confrontations between druids and Christians to the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
Claiming Sacred Ground
Claiming Sacred Ground Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona Adrian J. Ivakhiv A study of people and politics at two New Age spiritual sites. In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv focuses on the activities of pilgrim-migrants to Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona. He discusses their efforts to encounter and experience the spirit or energy of the land and to mark out its significance by investing it with sacred meanings. Their endeavors are presented against a broad canvas of cultural and environmental struggles associated with the incorporation of such geographically marginal places into an expanding global cultural economy. Ivakhiv sees these contested and "heterot...
The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey
Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the later middle ages.
Born on the 4th of July
The Book references the transformation of an unwanted old ruined double fronted shop in the heart of Glastonbury England which was renovated ,converted and extended to form a double winning spectacular shopping Arcade. The project took over 4 years to complete and entailed my love of history and architecture which were at the core of the project.
Wells and Glastonbury, a Historical and Topographical Account
A history and description of the ancient city of Wells and the nearby town of Glastonbury, both located in Somerset, England. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Last Abbot of Glastonbury
The last abbot of Glastonbury.--English Biblical criticism in the thirteenth century.--English scholarship in the thirteenth century.--Two dinners at Wells in the fifteenth century.--Some troubles of a Catholic family in penal times.--Abbot Feckenham and Bath.--Christian family life in pre-reformation days.--Christian democracy in pre-reformation times.--The layman in the pre-reformation parish.--St. Gregory the Great and England.--Index
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Glastonbury
A description of Glastonbury that remains one of the most evocative and poignant accounts of this wild yet holy place; a power center polarizing with distant Jerusalem and linking and harmonizing the Christian way with the primeval and pagan past of England.
