Welcome to Exploring the Easter E.g.: Shifting Baselines and Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological “Aliens”, a major AHRC-funded research project.
Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar, yet little is known about the festival’s genesis, when it first appeared in Britain, the origins of its component customs (such as hunting for eggs left by the Easter ‘bunny’) or how they coalesced to form modern traditions. We also know less than we think about the animals most commonly associated with Easter: brown hares, rabbits and chickens. Even the popular and widely circulated accounts of ‘pagan origins’ often turn out to be less than robu
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