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Christmas observance was outlawed in Boston in 1659, with a fine of five shillings. [64] [65] [66] The ban by the Puritans was revoked in 1681 by an English appointed governor, Edmund Andros; however, it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region. [67]
The 16th-century Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" says, "God rest ye merry, gentlemen / Let nothing you dismay / Remember, Christ, our Saviour / Was born on Christmas Day."
In continental Europe, it was suppressed by the Council of Basel in 1431, but was revived in some places from time to time, even as late as the eighteenth century. 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 ...
The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...
[3]: 146 Knecht Ruprecht first appears in written sources in the 17th century, as a figure in a Nuremberg Christmas procession. [ 2 ] : 155 Samuel Taylor Coleridge encountered a Knecht Ruprecht character in a 1798 visit to Ratzeburg , a town in northern Germany, which he described as "outfitted in 'high buskins, a white robe, a mask, and an ...
By the 18th century, the English legal year – used for legal, financial and other civil purposes – had for centuries begun on 25 March, or Lady Day. [ 13 ] [ i ] Thus, for example, 24 March 1707 was immediately followed by 25 March 1708, while the day following 31 December 1708 was 1 January 1708, with 1709 still nearly three months away.
Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi (right) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements (Chinese: 幾何原本) published in 1670. The Chinese Rites controversy (simplified Chinese: 中国礼仪之争; traditional Chinese: 中國禮儀之爭; pinyin: Zhōngguó lǐyí zhī zhēng) was a dispute among Catholic missionaries over the religiosity of Confucianism and Chinese rituals during the 17th ...
17th-century hoaxes (2 P) Pages in category "17th-century controversies" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.