Starting sometime around the dawn of the industrial revolution and finishing with a definitive BANG at WWI, life in Western Europe/North America seemed to be progressively drained of colour.
I think you might like Eamon Duffy's book Stripping the Altars, if you haven't read it already. He talks about the effects of the English Reformation on ordinary churchgoers in terms very similar to the ones you use here, and (at least for me, having grown up in a context much less High Anglican than I ended up in) sheds a lot of light on surviving Catholic traditions in the process.
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Re: Have we travelled back to 1517 while I wasn't looking?
Date: 2007-12-10 08:30 am (UTC)I think you might like Eamon Duffy's book Stripping the Altars, if you haven't read it already. He talks about the effects of the English Reformation on ordinary churchgoers in terms very similar to the ones you use here, and (at least for me, having grown up in a context much less High Anglican than I ended up in) sheds a lot of light on surviving Catholic traditions in the process.