Christmas is undergone vicious, severe and violent attacks over the last five or six hundred years. The pre-reformation Christmas was also about charity, which still is. In medieval times, there was actually less separation between servants and masters. There wasn't a sort of downturn everything upstairs downstairs. Got a quote here? You've given us a quote from a kind of modern translation of Goane in the Green Knight.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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