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Beltane and Samhain were the leading terminal dates of the civil year in medieval Ireland, though the latter festival was the more important.
Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.
The medieval Goidelic festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the end of the " lighter half " of the year and beginning of the " darker half ".
The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').
Samain or Samuin was the name of the feis or festival at the beginning of winter observed in medieval Ireland.
Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period.
The Palio of St. George is a typical medieval festival held every last Sunday of May.
The medieval festival in Heide tries to connect itself to the markets that were held in Heide in the Middle Ages but this festival is actually a latter-day recreation of the late 20th century.
* Arezzo is home to an annual medieval festival called the Saracen Joust ( Giostra del Saracino ).
Hattem celebrates each year De dikke tinne festival in a medieval atmosphere.
A festival of world music named " Archeo-Jazz " takes place here annually at the end of June, in the ruins of the medieval castle.
On that day a festival is held, where medieval authentic crafts, war games and folk music are presented.
In medieval times, this festival was celebrated with cat-burning rituals.
The celebration of the festival has its origin in the combination of two different medieval events.
* Mercato delle Gaite ( June ): big summer festival with medieval banquettes, processions, challenges between the four gaite ( quarters ) and taverns.
The Congress typically features a film festival, screening movies which have a medieval setting or theme.
The festival culminates in the Medieval Street Fair held in the historic High Street, on the second and final weekend where many stallholders dress in clothing of the era and help to portray what life was like in the medieval town.
Additionally, the city is famous for the medieval festival which it organizes each summer.
The festival also features several fairs with medieval, gothic and cultural merchandise.
Adhering to the medieval Peruvanam tradition, the festival is confined to the temples of Devi ( goddess ) and Sastha ( divine combination of Shiva and Vishnu ).
* Website of the annual medieval festival dedicated to the Limbourg brothers in Nijmegen
It was famous for its hot springs and for its springtime medieval festival.
In medieval and Tudor England, the Twelfth Night marked the end of a winter festival that started on All Hallows Eve — now more commonly known as Halloween.

medieval and commemorating
There is a commemorative brass in the medieval church of St Michael commemorating three generations of the d ’ Iseni or Disney family, made about 1580.
At the centre of the town is one of the three surviving medieval Eleanor Crosses, a memorial commemorating the over-night resting place of Queen Eleanor ’ s coffin on its processional journey from Lincoln to Westminster Abbey in 1290.
To their medieval peacock's head crest ( motto-Praite ), they added the mermaid ( motto-Tout Pret ), as Lords of Balquidder ; and in the seventeenth century, they took the demi-savage holding a sword and a key commemorating the capture of the last Lord of the Isles by the 1st Stewart Earl of Atholl in 1475: hence the motto Furth, Fortune, and Fill the Fetters.
A statue commemorating the Uprising, " the Little Insurgent ," now stands on the Old Town's medieval city wall.

medieval and local
The forms of parish worship in the late medieval church in England, which followed the Latin Roman Rite, varied according to local practice.
In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.
Ronnie Ellenblum claims this view was influenced by French imperialism and colonialism ; if medieval French crusaders could integrate themselves into local society, then certainly modern French colonies in the Levant could thrive.
However, sceptics question the narrative's reliability, noting that water-beast stories were extremely common in medieval saints ' Lives ; as such, Adomnán's tale is likely a recycling of a common motif attached to a local landmark.
In medieval Europe, such documents were issued to travellers by local authorities, and generally contained a list of towns and cities into which a document holder was permitted to pass.
The Society as a whole, each kingdom, and each local group within a kingdom, all have a standard group of officers with titles loosely based on medieval equivalents.
To the extent that medieval natural philosophers used mathematical problems, they limited social studies to theoretical analyses of local speed and other aspects of life.
Other pieces from this period include a draft of a play about a Bishop, a monk, and a woman accused of paganism by local shepherds, as well as love-poems and narrative lyrics on medieval German knights.
Anglo-Norman royal institutions reached an efficiency previously unknown in medieval Europe, and the king's personal power, through an effective and loyal chancery, penetrated to the local level to an extent unmatched in France.
Nevertheless, Yemen's medieval history is a tangled chronicle of contesting local Imams.
* The Flemish town of Douai emits the first recorded redeemable annuities in medieval Europe, confirming a trend of consolidation of local public debt stated in 1218 in Rheims.
This popular saying tells you more about the local sense of humor than it does about the city, but Bari has a surprising amount of charm, particularly Barivecchia, its increasingly chic medieval old town.
Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour ( meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colour brought about by light, shade and reflection ).
The châteaux range from the very large ( often now in public hands ) to more ' human-scale ' châteaux such as the Château de Beaulieu in Saumur or the medieval Chateau du Rivau close to Chinon which were built of the local tuffeau stone.
The village is believed to have been founded around 800 BC and hosts a medieval castle-tower of 12th century, hence the name ( meaning little tower in local dialect ), and a monastery.
* Hornsey ( parish ) for the local government unit of which Muswell Hill was part from medieval times to 1867
In 2001-2003 the construction of a Dracula theme park in the ' Breite ' nature preserve near Sighişoara was considered but ultimately rejected, due to the strong opposition of local civil society groups and national and international media as well as politically influential persons, as the theme park would have detracted from the medieval style of the city and would have destroyed the nature preserve.
Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.
The prisoners kept there in the medieval period included local poachers and, in the 15th century, religious dissidents, including Lollard supporters.
As with many of the other market towns in the county, the weaving of local cloth brought prosperity to the town in medieval times.
Both the tithe ( diezmo ), a levy of 10 % on all agricultural production, and " first fruits " ( primicias ), an additional harvest levy, were collected in Spain throughout the medieval and early modern periods for the support of local Catholic parishes.
According to local folklore, the dispute began in medieval times with a young bride being married to an old man and a knight stealing his way over the mountains to rescue her.
This is presumably because direct medieval contacts between Ireland and continental Europe were at too low a level to embed use of the Hibernian root, or the original Irish Éire, in local vernaculars.
As with most medieval city laws, the rights were primarily targeted at regulating trade to the benefit of the local merchants and artisans, who formed the most important part of the population of many such cities.

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