Published: 30-07-2012, 12:20

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Surviving Medieval Customs

Christmas in Medieval Europe

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Christmas Season

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Entertainments

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Christmas Feasts in Medieval Europe

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Famous English Christmas Feasts

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Adapting Pagan Customs

Christmas in Medieval Europe: Creating Christian Customs

Many of these medieval customs and observances have now faded away. Nevertheless, we still celebrate Christmas by feasting, resting, decking our homes and churches with greenery, and partaking in popular forms of entertainment. Christmas carols remain with us, as do Nativity plays, although we know them today as Christmas pageants or as the Hispanic folk dramas of Las POSADAS and Los PASTORES.

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