Happy Easter!

[highlyeccentric]

God is dead- but don't worry, he'll get better.

I am abandoning my personal traditions and, rather than heading off to christian camp for an exhuasting and emotionally charged weekend, i went out drinking with the Goblin, MrsBacon and Devious on thursday; hung around with Goblin on Friday and made it to church just in time, still wearing the clothes I wore the night before; went home to dinner with church friends i haven't seen for ages and remembered that i'm not alone in the world; and am bumming around and pretending to translate today. Therefore, I present you with a strange medieval tradition:

Strange Easter traditions
In Medieval England the game of egg throwing was popular in churches at Easter. The choir would gather and the vicar would throw a hard- boiled egg among them. The egg was thrown around and the choirboy holding the egg when the church bell rang was the victor and got to keep the egg.

It can be found at Libby Purves' Faith Central on the Times Online.

Also, if I were to start keeping this blog, would you read it?

Comments

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Also, if I were to start keeping this blog, would you read it?

Yep.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

did i ever tell you that you're my official Target Audience?

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

I think you did once. Heeee! :D *blushy-blush*

Also, if I were to start keeping this blog, would you read it?

[tenthmedieval.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I would, and if it were updated more than three-monthly, I would blogroll it. Though you quite possibly have more readers than me anyway...

There are a number of LJs in your kind of line which I shrink from linking to usually, because their day-to-day life content isn't really an academic resource as such. I try and link only to blogs where research is presented, be it the blogger's own or other people's, the idea being that anything people follow from mine teaches them something. So I could blogroll this new one where I don't feel that I can Atol is þin Unseon!, even though your content is frequently interesting from my side of the lines.

It's a shame in a way, because otherwise I would be all about the idea that medievalists Can Have Lives Too, but I am still trying to look professional until I fool someone with a job to offer...

Re: Also, if I were to start keeping this blog, would you read it?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Hi, thanks Jonathan! I've been thinking i should separate the medieval stuff from the daily-life stuff (spare my flist from grammar, and spare the grammarians from what i had for breakfast), glad to hear it's an idea that would go down well :)

[(Anonymous)]

I have to say, I really enjoy the beginning of your post: "God is dead--but don't worry, he'll get better." That says quite a bit in just a few words. Also, that Easter Tradition is awesome. I wonder if I could get my church to start something like that--only throughout the entire congregation.

As for the Blogspot blog, I'd read it.

B. Hawk

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

It's my athiest boyfriend (goblinpaladin)'s idea of a cheery easter message...

I'd back any tradition which involved chucking (chocolate) eggs around... (can we do it instead of a sermon? please?)

*Highly

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

nice tradition :)

i... might read that blog! i like having your stuff mixed in together, because to be honest i prolly won't read your history/etc stuff in depth (at least not when i should be reading other things!), so it's nice to skim over it when it pops up, but i see that it would be Better to have them separate :)