Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Christmas controversies. A 1931 edition of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik, published by the League of Militant Atheists, depicting an Orthodox Christian priest being forbidden to take home a tree for the celebration of Christmastide, which was banned under the Marxist–Leninist doctrine of state atheism [1] Christmas is the celebration of the ...
The World Turned Upside Down. 1646 publication of the ballad with a woodcut frontispiece. " The World Turned Upside Down " is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. [1]
Puritans. The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a "just, almighty God," [1] and a lifestyle of pious, consecrated actions. The Puritans participated in their own forms of recreational activity, including visual arts, literature, and music.
In her youth, Rachel Fane wrote masques for performance at family entertainments. [2] One of these was her "May Masque" of 1627, possibly a Christmas or twelfth night masque, another is known as the "Wishing Chair Entertainment".
Grýla [a] is an ogress, first mentioned in 13th-century texts such as Íslendinga saga and Sverris saga, [4] but not explicitly connected with Christmas until the 17th century. She is enormous, and her appearance is repulsive. Grýla is also mentioned in the Skáldskaparmál section of the 13th-century Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson.
Father Christmas, a jolly, stout, bearded man who typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, predates the Santa Claus character. He was first recorded in early 17th century England but was associated with holiday merrymaking and drunkenness rather than bringing gifts. [27] In Victorian Britain, his image was remade to match that of Santa.
The " Huron Carol " (or " Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. [1] Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title ...
In the Tudor period, the Lord of Misrule (sometimes called the Abbot of Misrule or the King of Misrule) [1] is mentioned a number of times by contemporary documents referring to revels both at court and among the ordinary people. [3][4][5] While mostly known as a British holiday custom, some folklorists, such as James Frazer and Mikhail Bakhtin ...