A Happy Tudor New Year
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
For the Tudors, Christmas Day was not traditionally the date when gifts were given. The Twelve Days of Christmas begin on 25 December and end at Epiphany, 6 January - also known as Twelfth Night. In Tudor times, all 12 were feast days, but 1 January was the day when presents were unwrapped.
In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb dives into how Christmas and New Year were marked by the Tudors and Stuarts, and what kind of gifts they gave, with Dr. Felicity Heal, author of The Power of Gifts: Gift Exchange in Early Modern England.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb. |
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| 0:32.2 | I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb, host of the Not Just the Tudas podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | I want to tell you about a new podcast series, The Mystic and the Mayor. |
| 0:42.0 | As a historian, I'm fascinated by stories of witchcraft and magic. |
| 0:47.1 | For centuries, accusations of sorcery have brought down even the most rich and powerful. |
| 0:52.7 | But this isn't a story from the pages of distant history. |
| 0:57.1 | In February 24, in the glamorous French coastal town of Agde, a respected mayor was arrested for |
| 1:04.7 | corruption. His defence. He claims he was bewitched by the town's beautiful clairvoyant. |
| 1:11.8 | The case has got it all. |
| 1:13.7 | Phone calls from the Archangel Michael, seances where the dead speak through the living, |
| 1:18.9 | a mayor who believed he was receiving supernatural guidance. |
| 1:23.5 | Hosted by the broadcaster Anna Richardson, |
| 1:26.7 | The Mystic and the Mayor is a modern-day tale of sorcery |
| 1:29.9 | that could have come straight from the history books. |
| 1:32.7 | The dark arts, it seems, are alive and well in the 21st century. |
| 1:37.6 | Binge the whole series of The Mystic and the Mayor on Wondry Plus |
| 1:41.8 | through Apple Podcasts, Spotify or in the Wondry app. |
| 1:58.9 | You may have heard the ghastly expression, Twixtmas, to signify the days between Christmas and New Year. |
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