Winter: Darkness, Hospitality, and Return (The Keeping Year, #4)

The blessed Candlemas candle came before the battery tea‑light. The communal bowl passed at the door came before the Christmas market souvenir mug. Behind every familiar winter scene lies an older object — harder to keep lit, harder to spare — and a set of obligations the modern season prefers to call "cheer."

Winter: Darkness, Hospitality, and Return traces winter's material culture across the British Isles and beyond, from Advent work‑nights and Yule fires to door‑visiting songs, first‑fo...