Tag: Christmas in the middle ages

  • What Was Christmas Like in the Middle Ages?

    Christmas in the Middle Ages was very different from today. It was raucous, long, and full of tradition, but it was fun. Christmas was twelve days long and sported great traditions and a few bad ones. People went wassailing, participated in the Festival of Fools, feasted, drank other alcohols that weren’t wassail, burned Yule logs,…