When Did the Church Adopt the Carol? - Professor Christopher Page

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Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

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Professor Christopher Page’s Lecture on medieval song and dance is filled with examples of the Church’s stern disapproval of carols. How is it then that  the church came to co-opt the carol?
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