Medieval Information

During the Dark Ages, many holidays that we celebrate today, were celebrated back then too.

Christmas, though similar, was different in a way. Medieval people would celebrate Christmas only for twelve days - but they made sure to have a very fun time while they were at it! Most kings would have enormous feasts to celebrate Christmas and some other kings would have tournaments, games, etc. during the fourteen days.

This made many people happy as peasants were allowed to have fun during Christmas too. Unfortunately, when Christmas ended, many religious folks were scared as they could sometimes sense something wrong. Of course this led to much superstition and a feel of anguish right before Christmas was finally over.

Besides Christmas, Easter was celebrated too. People would very often give each other colored eggs as presents. They would also have parties and mainly celebrate this holiday. The Easter Bunny didn't exist back then as it was later employed.

Halloween was also practiced during the Middle Ages in a different way than we do today. It was mostly simply religious ceremonies in which priests and religious people would pray - this was later known as All Hallow's Eve and then ultimately Halloween.

Of course many other celebrations and holidays existed back then including days devoted to saints and national festivals. Additionally, the king could make a certain day a celebration just because he wanted to. This happened frequently in the case of tournaments. Unfortunately for peasants, this was mostly for the royalty and nobles.