Epic Royal Breakups: The historic, the mythical, the Legendary

February 3, 2021.Reading time 30 minutes.

There is a thin line between love and hate, and if you’ve ever been involved in a passionate relationship that ended suddenly, messily, or smashed your heart into a million tiny pieces, then you get it. Heartbreak is one of life’s guaranteed rites of passage – virtually none of us make it through life without […]

a wassail toast to merry olde christmas

December 1, 2020.Reading time 17 minutes.

Many of us who love the Renaissance Festival and the history that it’s loosely planted in observe traditions that trace back to the early days of Christian European and English rituals. We may have trees strung with ornaments of the Twelve Days, or perhaps we indulge in a baked Yule Log. Mercifully, the tradition […]