Christmas: Its Origin & Associations

CHAPTER I. PAGE
THE ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS OF CHRISTMAS 5

CHAPTER II.
The Earlier Celebrations of the Festival 10

CHAPTER III.
Early Christmas Celebrations in Britain 23

CHAPTER IV.
Christmas, From the Norman Conquest To Magna Charta 40
(A.D. 1066-1215.)

CHAPTER V.
Christmas, From Magna Charta To the End of the Wars of
the Roses (A.D. 1215-1485.) 62

CHAPTER VI.
Christmas Under Henry VII. and Henry VIII. 94
(A.D. 1485-1547.)

CHAPTER VII.
Christmas Under Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth 115
(A.D. 1547-1603.)

CHAPTER VIII.
Christmas Under James I. 151
(A.D. 1603-1625.)

CHAPTER IX.
Christmas Under Charles the First and the Commonwealth 197
(A.D. 1625-1660.)

CHAPTER X.
Christmas, From the Restoration To the Death Of George II.
(A.D. 1660-1760.) 215

CHAPTER XI.
Modern Christmases at Home 240

CHAPTER XII.
Modern Christmases Abroad 294

CHAPTER XIII.
Concluding Carol Service of the Nineteenth Century 349