WC #24 Medieval Christmas with Misty Schieberle and Scott Smith

Weird Christmas Podcast

English - January 04, 2020 07:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
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Previous Episode: WC #23 The Ghost Story of 2019, M.R. James' "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance"

Next Episode: WC# 25 Christmas and Zen Buddhism, a talk with Brad Warner

What do we know about Christmas during the Middle Ages? Turns out it's kinda hard to find very much information. I talk to two medievalists, Misty Schieberle and Scott Smith, who help me trace what few mentions of Christmas there are in the English tradition.