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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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8. Frankincense in Early Modern Europe
by Tiéphaine Thomason (@teaphaine) This is the first post in a three-part series for the Doing History Advent Calendar on the history of the senses and the gifts of the Magi. When first drafting this post, I had written something short about the role of frankincense and its scent in early modern churches. Just as…
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