Bonus - The Medievalist's Guide to Christmas w/ Eleanor Janega

American Prestige

English - December 23, 2023 17:27 - 5 minutes - 6.73 MB - ★★★★★ - 594 ratings
Politics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: News - Gaza War, Houthi Red Sea Response, North Korea ICBM

Next Episode: E128 - The Vietnam War in the Pacific World w/ Brian Cuddy and Fredrik Logevall

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com

Danny and Derek welcome back to the podcast Eleanor Janega, medieval historian, author, and broadcaster, to get down to brass tacks: What is Christmas? They discuss its practice in early and medieval Christian societies, mummers’ plays and gambling, Saint Nicholas providing dowries and resurrecting boys killed for their meat, the post-Reformation treatm…