Wrapping gifts, placing them under trees and opening them on Christmas Day are a relatively modern invention — in early medieval times, some Christian rulers thought that the story of the three ...

For most of the year, medieval monks ate a very drab diet, often while sitting in silence. When celebrating Christmas those ...

Long before Santa Claus, caroling, and light-strewn Christmas trees, people in medieval Europe celebrated the Christmas season with 12 full days of feasting and revelry. Christmas in the Middle Ages ...

For the first time, the century-old Tour Jean Sans Peur is hosting a Christmas market within its 15th-century walls. A ...