The Authors consider the nature of Christmas Crib, its roots, its constituent elements. They show the feature of an universal and multicultural phenomenon, bound to the history of Christianity and shared among all latitudes.
The volume shows the variability of the phenomenon "Crib" in its various rapresentations all around the World. Crib, form of popular devotional expression, has become a veichle of regional culture and traditions: a veichle characterized by a marked preservation of elements and figures that belong to the first representations of the dramatic Nativity scene