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Christmas under the Puritans (1960)
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pepys
on Dec 22, 2021
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hprotagonist
on Dec 22, 2021
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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
on Dec 23, 2021
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> 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
on Dec 22, 2021
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Ha, an appropriate topic, given the lockdown restrictions on Christmas which we just narrowly avoided in the UK.
sophacles
on Dec 22, 2021
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What an appropriate username to submit this article :D.
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