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Thu Dec 23

The sordid underbelly of Christmas past

Written by: James A. T. Lancaster, Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions, The University of Queensland

The Feast of the Bean King, painted by Jacob Jordaens around 1640-1645.Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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