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Hymns and Carols: Coventry Carol

This is a series on Advents and Christmas carols, but today we are looking at a carol that was originally written as a song to be performed as part of the celebrations of the summertime feast of Corpus Christi. In the medieval period in England, dramatic presentations of salvation history—usually spanning all time from Creation to Doomsda—were a major part of the way in which Corpus Christi was celebrated in many towns and cities.