At that time of year in England holly, ivy and mistletoe were generally the only green things. Nicholas, as Santa Claus, was not an important part of Christmas until after the Reformation.Ĭhurches and other buildings were decorated with greenery for Christmas and the following days, a custom with many pagan antecedents. The Christmas season often started on Christmas Eve or Day, although Advent, which consists of the 40 days leading up to the 25th of December, was observed in various places in England. There was no huge run up in the days before Christmas. Both the pagan and the Christian worlds centered around an agrarian lifestyle which is foreign to many of us today, and their rituals reflected this lifestyle. This meant that the Christmas traditions celebrated in Medieval England, and many of those celebrated today, are an amalgam of pagan and Christian ritual and belief. It was also very convenient to graft the celebration of Christ’s birth onto the existing pagan holidays. The symbolisms of the lengthening daylight and forthcoming emergence of plants and animals in Spring were inescapable. For example, the Romans had the day of Sol Invictus (25th December) and the weeks long festival of Saturnalia and the northern Germanic and Norse cultures celebrated Jultide or Yule and Midwinternacht.Ĭhristian bishops living in the 350s chose the 25th of December as the day to celebrate Christ’s birth. This event, and the midwinter season, was celebrated in every known pagan European religion. Therefore the 25th was the day when the duration of the sun’s light began to grow.
In the old, pre-Gregorian, calendars the shortest night of the year, winter solstice, falls on 24th December (in modern, Gregorian, calendars it falls on the 21st or 22nd). I hope you all will enjoy reading a bit about how Christmas was celebrated 500-1000 years ago. I try to combine that with my love of research and recently wrote a small article for a very local newsletter (distribution about 30, I think :)).
ONCE UPON A TIME AT CHRISTMAS FREE
One of the crazy things I do with my copious free time (haha) is Medieval/Renaissance re-enactment. I’m glad that Once Upon A Time At Christmas came about as I feel it will have many fans soon.Once Upon a Time: Christmas in Medieval England Posted: Decem| Author: Rikke | Filed under: Festivities, just because | 22 Comments I really enjoyed the darkness of the film and how it made such a magical time so eerie. This was a gripping and tense slasher Film and was a sweet relief to finally get a decent Christmas slasher Film.
Young Jennifer finds herself the Center of it all when the killing seems to be sort of connected to her. Once upon a time at Christmas is a new festive slasher Film.įrom director Paul Tanter comes this Grizzly dark Christmas slasher movies about a small town haunted by a monstrous couple dressed as Santa and Mrs clause killing off their victims one by one. Can they stop the murders before Christmas comes - and there’s no one left to celebrate?” Though the victims seem random - a mall Santa, a smooching couple, an innocent family - high-schooler Jennifer and clever cop Sam begin to unravel the sinister pattern behind the slayings.
ONCE UPON A TIME AT CHRISTMAS SERIES
This serial-killer couple is terrorizing the holidays in an upstate New York town with a series of horrific homicides. Claus: he’s a one-eyed fiend, she’s a curvy, bat-swinging blonde.
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