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Author Topic: 12 days of Christmas K Grayson Member Member # 284 posted 12-30-2002 04:13 AM                   How important was the 12 days of Christmas in the early 15thC English calendar? What did it entail? What kind of celebration was it? -------------------- Kelt. Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged NEIL G Member Member # 187 posted 12-30-2002 08:04 AM                Hi; Rather surprisingly, christmas isn't that big a festival in the period - easter is notably more important. The modern pre-eminence of christmas is almost completely a nineteenth-century phenomena. Neil Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Friedrich Member Member # 40 posted 12-30-2002 09:26 AM                   Agreed. Actually, many of the Christmas traditions were German & Scandanavian (pagan based and adopted as catholic tradition) in origen. IE: Christmas trees, yule logs and feasting traditions. A neat book that discusses some of the history is: Christmas Customs and Traditions by Clement Miles. ISBN 0486233545 Registered: Jul 2000  |  IP: Logged

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