Medieval Christmas Feast

The diet of those in medieval monasteries was quite good anyway but christmas feasts included more meat and fish than usual.

Medieval christmas feast. The holiday came during a period after the crops had been harvested and there would be little to do on a farm. A christmas feast from eat medieval a festive online course join eat medieval a research collaboration between blackfriars restaurant in newcastle and durham university with friends from further afield for a medieval christmas feast. Farm animals however would only grow thinner and less valuable as winter wore on. I mean what s not to love.

The medieval calendar became dominated by christmas events starting forty days prior to christmas day the period we now know as advent from the latin word adventus meaning coming but which was originally know as the forty days of st. A medieval times feast is the perfect theme for a dinner party. You get to dress up and eat with your hands. Here are seven things you might see during christmas in the middle ages which range from cribs in italy to trolls in iceland.

We also know that at monasteries such as at cluny abbey in france the monks received a new gown and had one of their twice yearly baths at christmas any more was not permitted. 1 the christmas feast it is not surprising that food was a major part of a medieval christmas. Basing ourselves on the account of just such an occasion held by the bishop of hereford richard de swinfield. Medieval christmas wasn t quite the all encompassing celebration it often is today so relax a little.

Away from the medieval universities christmas was a natural time for feasting in the agrarian societies of medieval europe. Even monks had a treat or two at christmas. Martin because it began on 11 november the feast day of st martin of tours. The crops were well in and there was no farming to be done until spring.