tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161708961202647492.post7430599670144009453..comments2023-11-30T22:56:11.364+08:00Comments on That History Nerd: Morris DanceIrene Carstairshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17911201795640889723noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161708961202647492.post-47795063260404686622023-03-30T21:39:52.938+08:002023-03-30T21:39:52.938+08:00There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Mo...There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Morris dancing is 'pagan' <br />As the earliest evidence in England is from the mid 1400's and it was a London based Royal court entertainment that only later in the next century began to extend its range into the surrounding towns and villages. Links to paganism, fertility rites etc are spurious to put it mildly.<br />Also, for the dance to be pagan it would have had to have existed in some form or other for over 700 years which is an unlikely scenario given English society's upheavals during those years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161708961202647492.post-21005483590773547632023-01-19T01:03:22.083+08:002023-01-19T01:03:22.083+08:00I expect this comes here from Violet Alford's ...I expect this comes here from Violet Alford's book but the primary source is Mariano Soriano Fuertes, Historia de la Música Española. 4 vols. Madrid: Martin y Salazar, 1855. In Vol. 1, pp. 125-126 he writes (quoting a manuscript he hasn't actually seen) of the wedding dance in 1150 (not 1149) which had ‘moros y cristianos que figuraban un reñido combate’ (‘Moors and Christians who figured in a close combat’).MHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161708961202647492.post-74993156856985377592021-07-26T16:40:13.877+08:002021-07-26T16:40:13.877+08:00All sources are mentioned, and hyperlinked if a we...All sources are mentioned, and hyperlinked if a web source, at the end of the article. :)Irene Carstairshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911201795640889723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9161708961202647492.post-24573466454507958362021-07-26T03:49:44.516+08:002021-07-26T03:49:44.516+08:00Can you give your source for this please. "Th...Can you give your source for this please. "The first reference for: Morris style dance comes from the wedding of Raymond Berengar, Duke of Barcelona, and Petronilla of Aragon in 1149." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com