![]() ![]() With the dawn of the early nineteenth century, that behaviour became increasingly threatening, “combining carnival rowdiness with urban gang violence and Christmas-season riots.” Given this backdrop, the appeal of the Christmas we know today is understandable. ![]() “A kind of December Mardi Gras,” Stephen Nissenbaum writes in The Battle for Christmas. A lot of what happened would shock us today: heavy drinking with rules abandoned in an unrestrained carnival. ![]() Historically, Christmas was often a time for upending social structures.Ĭhristmas, at least as we know it today, resembles nothing of its past. Christmas, as a festival, has changed a lot throughout history, with many of its core modern traditions being more recent than we think or of surprising origin. ![]()
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