The Cross-Quartered Year
I was delighted to discover via Facebook that my friend, the medievalist Karen Ralls, celebrated Candlemas yesterday evening by giving a dinner which featured Provencal navettes. She got the recipe…
Candlemas – the non-PC Festival of Light
Peasants warm their naughty bits at the hearth.It is the midpoint of winter, half way between solstice and equinox, an eighth, then, of the quartered year. The word februa in…