To: dangus
It wasn't the Renaissance that changed the number of work days in England. IT WAS THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. Feasts days were essentially discontinued. In the seventeenth century, Christmas was banned by the Puritans. The presbyterians simply couldn't stand someone actually having a good time.
9 posted on
09/02/2006 9:36:37 AM PDT by
vladimir998
(Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
To: vladimir998
I was referring to that period as Rennaissance and Englightenment to highlight the insanely skewed outlook of the Anglosphere's historians...
11 posted on
09/02/2006 9:45:20 AM PDT by
dangus
To: vladimir998
It wasn't the Renaissance that changed the number of work days in England. IT WAS THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. Feasts days were essentially discontinued. In the seventeenth century, Christmas was banned by the Puritans. The presbyterians simply couldn't stand someone actually having a good time.You mean there are those that still do celebrate Christmas? Someone, email Cromwell and tell him to get off his duff! No fun for ANYONE!
15 posted on
09/02/2006 12:02:18 PM PDT by
Ottofire
(Fire Tempers Steel)
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