Michael caldwell

Robert is having a feast day today. There are approximately 40 to 50 of these per year in medieval England, spread across the liturgical calendar. Saints' days, holy days, the major festivals. Modern people hear "forty feast days a year" and imagine a man who is basically always at a buffet. Robert would like a word. 6:00am - Up. Robert is going to Mass this morning because it is the Feast of St John the Baptist and the Church is not asking. He walks two miles to the church. The church is cold. It is always cold. God, apparently, does not heat his buildings. 8:00am - Back from church. Agnes has made a slightly different pottage. There is no meat in it. There is a religious reason for this. Robert does not fully understand the theological reasoning. He understands the outcome, which is that on a day technically designated as celebratory, he is eating oat pottage with a piece of hard cheese on top. 10:00am - Robert is still working. The feast day is a holy day, not a holiday. The distinction matters enormously and Robert is living it. The lord's grain doesn't stop needing to be managed because a saint was beheaded in the second century. Robert gets to the field slightly later than usual and works until slightly later than usual to compensate. 1:00pm - The feast meal. Robert's household has a piece of salt fish. It is tough and strongly flavoured and required soaking since yesterday to become this edible. There is rye bread. There is a small amount of peas boiled with some herbs from Agnes's garden. By the standards of a Tuesday in February, this is a feast. Robert eats it slowly. He is grateful for the fish. 3:00pm - Robert's neighbour John has ale. This is the closest the day gets to a celebration. They sit outside in the late afternoon with their cups. They discuss the harvest. The weather. The lord's new tax assessment. The general sensation that things are not improving. 9:00pm - Sleep. The forty feast days per year were, in practice, days when Robert had slightly better food than the worst days, was not flogged for not working (usually), and got to go to a very cold building to hear Latin he didn't understand. Eight hundred years later, someone will describe the medieval feast calendar as "a rich tradition of communal celebration and seasonal abundance." Robert is asleep. He has work at dawn.

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It seems clear that the Supreme Court is going to find that the 250,000 babies born to illegal immigrants each year are our fellow citizens. I posit we must then focus on assimilating them, and making them proud to be American.

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これは「箱入り娘の大家族」という、 『並いる家族たちをどうにかして、箱入り娘を玄関から外に出そう！』というゲームなんですけど、家族たちがマジで手強くて気が狂いそうになるので、パズル得意なフォロワーに攻略してほしい