A Day in the Middle Ages

After waking up in your unfamiliar setting, the first meal you will get is breakfast, served after morning mass. This is a small snack that consists of a hunk of bread and some ale or cider.1 After breakfast, dinner is served sometime between ten o'clock and noon. This is the largest meal of the day. Supper is another light meal served near the time of sunset.

The table at a meal is covered with a tablecloth that has on side reaching all the way to the floor. This is the side where places are set, the extra cloth is used as a napkin. Instead of plates, day old flat pieces of bread, called

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Eyeliner is worn, and lashes are darkened with soot. However, if it has already begun to set, they re-break it so it can be set in the right position. It had to be large enough that it would burn for all twelve days. Apple bobbing is another apple game. Apples are the most important part of the festivities. Many of the holidays celebrated by people in the middle ages are still celebrated today. " The festivities of the day are ended with a giant group dance around the fire.

The clothing you wear in the middle ages will be quite different than those you wear today.

Midsummer Eve is a holiday that is no longer celebrated today, but was important in the middle ages. Hair is parted in the middle and is sometimes worn with bangs.

Easter is another familiar holiday. There are many cultural differences between today and medieval Europe, more than can be learned by reading any number of books. It is supposed to form the initials of the thrower's future sweetheart.

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