[SCA-BMDL] Medieval New Years celebrations et al

[Cheryl Brasch Ageless Fashions]

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/newyearhistory.html
 
Based on the link above the New Years celebration was abolished as being pagan by the Council of Tours. 

http://www.newyorkcarver.com/feastoffools.htm
 
The link above shows it was celebrated as a Feast of Fools. For those of you who remember the Disney "Hunchback of Notre Dame", that was the celebration in question. 
 
Those Wacky Philadelphians still celebrate it with the Mummers Parade. A real life medieval tradition, right here in our own home state. 
 
That second link says that the wanton debauchery and chaos included but was not limited to gambling on the church altar, cross dressing, etc. Gives me some ideas for our own New Years party. 
 
Y'all are invited, of course. Its a housewarming/New Years party. We are having a theme of "clear drinks" to celebrate the new carpet. All the vodka, 7-up, lite rum, chablis, champgne you can drink! There will be food. There will be movies and games n' stuff. Culminating in a traditional winter bonfire of all of the scrap from the completed construction. 

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--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Jeff Hoskinson <jeffhos at eclecsia.org> wrote:

From: Jeff Hoskinson <jeffhos at eclecsia.org>
Subject: [SCA-BMDL] Medieval New Years celebrations?
To: sca-bmdl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 4:42 PM

Does anyone have any information or references for ways the New Year  
was celebrated in the middle ages?

Thanks,
-- Cai
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