Carnival and Lent

Hals, Merrymakers at shrovetide
Franz Hals, ‘Merrymakers at Shrovetide’
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Of course, I’ve written about early modern carnivals before. And then there was a bit of Rabelais for Christmas…

But it’s that time of year again! Pancakes for dinner! (And the shops selling out of eggs… so possibly not as many pancakes as I’d really like.) And I never, ever get bored of this theme, so:

Carnival and other Christian festivals
On ‘The battle between Carnival and Lent’
Feasts, fairs and festivals
Catholic Encyclopaedia: Shrovetide

Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday in England
Holy Days: Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday
Royal shrovetide football, Derbyshire
Shrovetide: the marrying season (Ireland)
Finnish shrovetide
Lithuanian shrovetide
Carnival/shrovetide: Spain
Žejane’s Shrovetide
Pancake mountains in Moscow
Mardi Gras on the net
How Mardi Gras works
Mardi Gras (wikipedia)
Carnival in Trinidad

Pancake recipes galore
Pancake day
Norwegian shrovetide buns
Canarian recipes for Shrove Tuesday
Fastnachts
Polish shrove doughnuts
Estonian Shrove Tuesday buns

History of Lent
The beginning of Lent
History of Ash Wednesday
The season of Lent

Update: more eggs had been delivered today. And I remembered to get some milk (knew there was something missing last night…). Pancake feasting, here I come.

Posted by Sharon on 8 February 2005 at 12:05 am in Resources

8 comments on “Carnival and Lent”

  1. sepoy says:

    Man I love Fat Tuesday. If only for Paczkis – er, Polish Shrove (Chicago people call em Paczkis). Yum.

    8th February 2005 at 2:05 pm
  2. Steve says:

    Bananas, honey and a tin of sterilised cream (whipped). Unbeatable!

    8th February 2005 at 4:41 pm
  3. Sharon says:

    I am strangely satisfied with old-fashioned sugar and lemon. Honey good for a change. And I’ll see what else I can throw together when it comes to it. But I’m not keen on *very* sweet pancake fillings.

    8th February 2005 at 5:37 pm
  4. Another Damned Medievalist says:

    ADH refused to make pancakes. I sulked and had chips, because fried foods always go away at Lent.

    9th February 2005 at 8:13 pm
  5. Sharon says:

    You didn’t just make some for yourself? (None for him, obviously.)

    I ate far too many anyway. :)

    9th February 2005 at 9:39 pm
  6. Another Damned Medievalist says:

    Nope — Things at school are far too rough these days. Got home late and didn’t feel like doing much of anything.

    10th February 2005 at 5:05 am
  7. Sharon says:

    I see. (All the more shame upon the ADH!) :(

    10th February 2005 at 11:02 am
  8. Another Damned Medievalist says:

    I am, unfortunately, beginning to understand why so many of the smart and fairly successful women academics I know are single.

    10th February 2005 at 4:20 pm