THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS
🎄The Pageau and Deacon Seraphim episode in the Universal History series on Christmas dates back to 2023. It is of course part of the playlist, but we never posted it here. So here we are belatedly learning about the nature of Christmas, why it looks the way it does, how Christmas developed into what we have today, and why you absolutely should celebrate it if you’re a Christian. Apparently this is in doubt in some American Protestant circles.
Dec. 14, 2023 Jonathan Pageau: The Universal History of Christmas - with Richard Rohlin.
In the live blog on The Festival of Light (link) we discovered that the third festival of Theophany (Western Epiphany) is celebrated on January 6 and that in some countries it is seen as one feast with Christmas. Deacon Seraphim explains that in the segment marked at 16:19 - From the moment of conception.
When the time is ripe we will come back about all these festivals in aforementioned live blog on The Festival of Light (link). For now, let's dig into Christmas!
Timestamps
0:00 - Coming up
0:57 - Intro music
1:22 - Introduction
2:14 - The Christmas wars
6:52 - Outline of this episode
7:57 - The essence of Christmas
14:51 - A glimmer of light
16:19 - From the moment of conception
19:57 - It's important to celebrate
20:32 - A period of preparation
22:48 - Winter comes with the cold
26:16 - Christmas carols
31:43 - Evergreenery
33:00 - The Feasting of the Poor
35:17 - Two rules about charity
43:45 - Paraliturgical ways to participate in Christmas
48:07 - Christmas in the early modern period
49:21 - Medieval Christmas carols still sung today
51:01 - The Christmas and Easter rhythm
54:04 - The Puritans
59:20 - The dangers of a feast
1:03:06 - Christmas will win
1:04:27 - Christmas aesthetics
1:06:10 - Charles Dickens
1:09:46 - Christmas in the US
1:12:13 - Santa Claus and marketing
1:14:54 - The Soviet Union
1:15:24 - Three Kings cake
1:16:40 - Commercialization
1:18:24 - Richard's Midwit Defence of Christmas
1:24:05 - Hamlet
1:26:08 - God enters history
1:28:27 - Christmas is not optional
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