Putting the “Yule” Back in “Yuletide”

In Fritz Allhoff & Scott C. Lowe (eds.), Christmas ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 36–46 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Christmas's Cultural Context Christmas: What's Yule Got to Do With It? Christmas and Christian Apologetics The Medieval Christmas: Christ and Kissing Games.

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putting the “Yule” Back in “Yuletide”   Christmas's cultural context ‐ medieval England, Christian and non‐Christian as integral parts of culture   reconciling Christian thought with non‐Christian philosophy   Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes ‐ more than happy to serve as mercenaries for the Britons   cultural mixing of native Britons and Germanic invaders ‐ forming the Anglo‐Saxon people   martial and cultural power struggles, Anglo‐Saxon, Roman, and Viking influences ‐ mixed culture, for a people cut off by the North Sea   Christmas and Yuletide ‐ Christmas, what's yule got to do with it   yule, religious connotation in Old English ‐ geoheldæig (yule‐day) marking December 25   Bede's wealth of information about early medieval England ‐ in Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum   medieval Christmas ‐ Christ and kissing games

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