If by the end of November you hadn't got your food stores down for winter already, you'd be screwed. The Middle Ages underwent a small iceage - November was already frozen solid. Anyway, mornings are for baking and sewing when there is light.
You forgot one very important ingrediant with the Medieval version - that for when they are off time, they party hard. If you know, not so beaten down by surviving that they can't. Bucket loads of alcohol, improvisation, side shows (dancers, singers, story tellers, jugglers etc), hawkers, a lot of sex behind buildings by the youngsters, lots of food and that this is one of the few times you'd get to be eating a lot of good food( as fasting before Christmas is expected as well as Easter.There would also be eucharist (smells and bells!) to follow (or before) ... However, the passion plays are often subversive to the established powers and there is always fighting, violence and a lot of skirmishing in the streets. Never pays to be a widow or prostitute or single right about now.
For actual Christmas, any gift giving that goes on is small hand made things, or berries, or hair. After all this is a celebration of the saviour of the world, the one who has and will pull you out of the misery that is life... personally I would infinitely prefer the Medieval version .. I hate shoppers. :P
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Date: 2007-11-24 10:56 am (UTC)You forgot one very important ingrediant with the Medieval version - that for when they are off time, they party hard. If you know, not so beaten down by surviving that they can't. Bucket loads of alcohol, improvisation, side shows (dancers, singers, story tellers, jugglers etc), hawkers, a lot of sex behind buildings by the youngsters, lots of food and that this is one of the few times you'd get to be eating a lot of good food( as fasting before Christmas is expected as well as Easter.There would also be eucharist (smells and bells!) to follow (or before) ... However, the passion plays are often subversive to the established powers and there is always fighting, violence and a lot of skirmishing in the streets. Never pays to be a widow or prostitute or single right about now.
For actual Christmas, any gift giving that goes on is small hand made things, or berries, or hair. After all this is a celebration of the saviour of the world, the one who has and will pull you out of the misery that is life... personally I would infinitely prefer the Medieval version .. I hate shoppers. :P