"In the Bleak Midwinter"

Christina Rossetti (1872)

Most of our readers, I’ll wager, have heard that old canard that we don’t really know when Jesus was born, as it could have been summertime and not winter, so that all of our carols with snow in them are just what people in the north might imagine, that’s all. But there are pretty good arguments for believing that we’ve got the season right. I’ll give…