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Holiday Gifting and Social Power in Early Modern England
By Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) While today, families gather around the tree to open gifts on Christmas morning, in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England Christmas Eve and Day were a comparatively solemn affair. That did not mean, however, that families, friends, and their patrons did not exchange gifts over the holidays! Rather than Christmas morning, New Year’s…
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