The History of Christmas in Europe

In the middle ages, christmas existed as this tiny little window where the rules got turn on their heads. There wasn't consequences for paganism, or for debauchery, or for excessive eating and drinking. That's actually that only really came in around the victorian period, around the late industrial revolution. And it starts with queen victoria, or the famine queen, as we call her here in ireland. So now, when a carnivalesque mood happens at christmas and everyone gets shit faced andnowther hundreds of people in the industrial slums of london, now this carnivalesque christmas celebration gets ugly. Now it turns into a riot. Now it becomes