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Amsterdam/New York: Santa Claus is the Child of Global Cities (part 4)Sep 10, 2024 New York illustrators would take care of the rest: Thomas Nast depicted Santa Claus, still...
Amsterdam/New York: Santa Claus is the Child of Global Cities (part 3)Sep 10, 2024 For more than a century, though, it lay dormant, effectively outcompeted by the Puritans’ Thanksgiving,...
Amsterdam/New York: Santa Claus is the Child of Global Cities (part 2)Sep 09, 2024 It is interesting to note that the direct ancestor of the 20th-century Santa Claus was...
Amsterdam/New York: Santa Claus is the Child of Global Cities (part 1)Sep 05, 2024 Two prosperous port cities, historically linked by genealogy, would create the modern Santa Claus, a...
Second Step, Saint Nicholas in Europe: From Triumphal Spread to Fragmentation (12th-16th Century) (last part)Sep 05, 2024 After four centuries in Europe, Saint Nicholas triumphed and was already distributing gifts to children...
Second Step, Saint Nicholas in Europe: From Triumphal Spread to Fragmentation (12th-16th Century) (part 3)Sep 04, 2024 The remedies were well-known: bonfires and illuminations to ward off the spirits, gifts to appease...
Second Step, Saint Nicholas in Europe: From Triumphal Spread to Fragmentation (12th-16th Century) (part2)Sep 04, 2024 The somewhat gruesome aspect of this legend reminds us of some dark realities: Christian year-end...
Second Step, Saint Nicholas in Europe: From Triumphal Spread to Fragmentation (12th-16th Century) (Part 1)Sep 03, 2024 Confined to his Asian tomb, Nicholas left the Christian West in peace for six centuries,...
