Find out and talk about medieval history, Sicily and the Mediterranean during the Crusades, food and culture, what did medieval people eat and drink (our sleuth is a tavern owner, after all!!) and what about money and trade? Spices and what about the streets of a medieval town after dark? And what about the women in medieval Sicily? What did they wear, eat, drink and how did they get married (or not)?
Monday, April 21, 2014
Easter Monday - Anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers!
I know all of you out there know that the Easter Monday, 1282, is the anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers when the Sicilians, with the help of the Aragonese, threw off the yoke of their Angevin oppressors. Let's all celebrate!!!! Easter Monday is a Sicilian tradition wherein the Sicilians gathered at the church of Santo Spirito, which in the Middle Ages used to be outside the walls of the capital city of Palermo. The Sicilians would gather in the piazza in front of the church at Vespers time to finish their celebration of Easter.
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