After a long fast, Medieval Christendom typically celebrated the holiday with many days of raucous festivities ...

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

These anxieties are as prevalent today as they were in the Middle Ages, when the élites of medieval Ireland hosted great Christmas celebrations to impress others not just with their hospitality ...

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 ...