Christmas under the Puritans (1960)

[pepys]

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/christmas-under-puritans

[hprotagonist]

reminding people that the trope “hurr durr christmas is just saturnalia” is english protestant agitprop that was cooked up during the reformation to stomp on the catholics a bit is, shall we say, regularly entertaining but rarely fruitful.

[duxup]

> What masking and mumming? whereby robberies, whoredom, murder, and what not, is committed?

That’s a spicy Christmas… was there really more of that at Christmas at that time?

[bencollier49]

Ha, an appropriate topic, given the lockdown restrictions on Christmas which we just narrowly avoided in the UK.

[sophacles]

What an appropriate username to submit this article :D.