Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events…

A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the midwinter season.

At a glance The festival we think we know turns out to have a long and layered past, and this… What it's about The book gathers the origins and associations of Christmas, following… It ranges across the religious foundations of the feast, the folk traditions that… It reads as part chronicle, part anthology of seasonal lore.

The book gathers the origins and associations of Christmas, following the season through history and drawing together the customs, celebrations, and observances attached to it over nineteen centuries.