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The Boar's Head Festival : a Christmas celebration /

A heavily illustrated volume for children and adults that tells the story of the Boar's Head Festival, a Christmas celebration incorporating such medieval legends as that of Good King Wenceslaus, the boar's head legend in which a ferocious boar is killed by a young Oxford scholar and the N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehman, LaLonnie (Author)
Other Authors: Halbower, Susan J. (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth : TCU Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival.
Christmas plays, American > Texas > Fort Worth.
Winter festivals > Texas > Fort Worth.
Winter festivals > Texas > Fort Worth > Juvenile literature.
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Summary:A heavily illustrated volume for children and adults that tells the story of the Boar's Head Festival, a Christmas celebration incorporating such medieval legends as that of Good King Wenceslaus, the boar's head legend in which a ferocious boar is killed by a young Oxford scholar and the Nativity story. The celebration is narrated and played out by beautifully costumed actors in medieval garb.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN:9780875656267 (alk. paper)
0875656269 (alk. paper)
9780875656175 (alk. paper)
087565617X (alk. paper)