Author

WANG Chaohua (The Institute of World History Chinese Academy of Social Sciences )

Abstract

In the late Middle Ages, people's daily life was rich and colorful in England. In a hundred of days of holidays, people could participate in religious activities and enjoy leisure and entertainment without work. Take the Midsummer Festival as an example, people held all kinds of celebrations, banquets, parades, and even imitated and ridiculed the upper class. We can find some appearances of the popular “Merry England” from the Midsummer festival activities, and the traditional impression of the Middle Ages as a “Dark Age” needs to be changed.

Published on Economic and Social History Review, Issue 2, 2021.