Feasts(B)

**Feasts and Festivals**


Festivals were an important part of medieval life. Most festivals were public events involving dancing and singing. There were over forty saint's days and over 30 local church feasts, each year. The feasts of the church year, like the Holy Week, were honored with parades, and specials masses. In medieval Europe festivals were so frequent that holidays took up more than one third of the year.

Works Cited
 * Dark Avenger. “File:Kaltenberg Arena 09.jpg.” Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Foundation, July 2009. Web. 5 Apr. 2010. .
 * “Feasts and Festivals.” The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. Ed. William Chester Jordan. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1996. 90-94. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 25 Mar. 2010.
 * “Festivals.” Medieval Word. Ed. Sally MacEachern. Vol. 3. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2001. 63. Print.

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