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Thread #111625 Message #2356394
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
03-Jun-08 - 02:28 PM
Thread Name: English Folk Degree?
Subject: RE: English Folk Degree?
That trend has been going on for all of recorded history on the Sceptered Isle, Wav. The ancient Britons emulating the culture of the continent and the Romans, different waves of migrations/invasions emulating the locals and each other, then the continental fashions brought over by the Normans, then the Italian styles in dress, food, music and literature (Chaucer is definitely influenced by Boccacio, for instance), various German fashions, then French, and what can you say about Handel, a German who wrote music in an Italian style? Then in the 17 & 1800s the Orient was very much in vogue, architecture, food, literature, music, dress, then, under the Victorians especially, Everything Highlandish became the in thing.....