2000/01/01 by Martin W. Walsh · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Renaissance Literature and Culture #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #Tree-ring climate responses #Carnivalesque #Cult #History #Archaeology #Order (exchange) #Art #Literature #Classics #Ancient history
paper · doi:10.1080/00155870020004620
openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Beginning with Elizabethan literary references to a carnivalesque celebration of Martinmas, the present article surveys the St Martin cult in England in order to isolate features of the medieval celebration of the Christian feast and determine the feast's relationship to seasonal activities of early November. Martinmas is seen as both the last harvest festival and a curtain raiser for the extended winter revelling season, in effect a "Carnival" in late autumn.