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Title: Christmas: Its Origin and Associations
Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

Author: William Francis Dawson

Release Date: July 10, 2007 [eBook #22042]

Language: English

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[Illustration: BRINGING IN THE YULE LOG. _Frontispiece._]

CHRISTMAS:

_ITS ORIGIN AND ASSOCIATIONS,_

TOGETHER WITH

ITS HISTORICAL EVENTS AND FESTIVE
CELEBRATIONS DURING NINETEEN
CENTURIES:

DEPICTING, BY PEN AND PENCIL,

MEMORABLE CELEBRATIONS, STATELY MEETINGS OF EARLY KINGS,
REMARKABLE EVENTS, ROMANTIC EPISODES, BRAVE DEEDS,
PICTURESQUE CUSTOMS, TIME-HONOURED SPORTS,
ROYAL CHRISTMASES, CORONATIONS AND ROYAL MARRIAGES,
CHIVALRIC FEATS, COURT BANQUETINGS AND REVELLINGS,
CHRISTMAS AT THE COLLEGES AND THE INNS OF COURT,
POPULAR FESTIVITIES, AND CHRISTMAS-KEEPING
IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD,
DERIVED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC
SOURCES, AND ARRANGED
CHRONOLOGICALLY.