Michaelmas
29 September and what grew around it. Quarter day, rents and hiring fairs, the Michaelmas goose and the blackberry folklore, the term that still bears the name at Oxford and Cambridge, and the modern afterlife, the tattoo, the surname, the station tile.
Part of Saint Michael
13 moments in this segment.
- - Sippers and Topers c1900 Stone. English rural scene photographed c. 1900 associated with Michaelmas customs; Michaelmas (29 September) was a quarter day marking the end of the harvest year.
- - Turamichele-2007-1. The Turamichele of Augsburg, a mechanical figure of Saint Michael striking the devil that appears from the Perlach tower each Michaelmas; photographed 2007.
- - Brussels Central Station Saint Michael tile. Tiled image of Saint Michael at Brussels Central Station, photographed 2016; the archangel as civic emblem in modern public space.
- - Michaelmas and the Medieval Harvest Year. A medieval-history channel on Michaelmas as a harvest marker, with the hedgerow customs, blackberries and seasonal foods attached to 29 September.
- - Michaelmas: The Holiday Britain Forgot. A history of Michaelmas, once ranked with Christmas and Easter in the English calendar, and an account of how it faded.
- - Michaelmas: The Angelic Battle in Christian Reflection. Confessional reflection for the 29 September feast recounting the creation of the angels, Lucifer's rebellion and the war in heaven as read through the saints and mystics.
- - Augsburg, Turamichele-Fest 2023, Ballons, 1. The Turamichele festival in Augsburg, 2023; a Michaelmas civic custom dating in some form to the sixteenth century.
- - Why Is the Archangel Michael So Feared?. A mythology channel surveys how Michael is portrayed in popular culture as warrior, judge and adversary of Lucifer.
- - The Real Story of Michaelmas. How liturgy, legend and folk custom converge on the 29 September feast of St Michael and All Angels.
- - How the Tudors Marked Michaelmas. Historian Claire Ridgway on Michaelmas in Tudor England, including its role as one of the four English quarter days when rents and accounts fell due.
- - A Saint Michael Tattoo, Start to Finish. A tattoo artist works through a large St Michael piece, showing the archangel's continued place as a protective motif in contemporary tattoo culture.
- - The Latter-day Saint Adam-God Teaching Explained. An examination of Brigham Young's teaching about Adam, whom Latter-day Saint scripture identifies with the archangel Michael, and how Mormons have handled the doctrine since.
- - How Michael Became One of the World's Most Common Names. An account of the name's Hebrew origin, its meaning 'Who is like God', and how the archangel's cult carried it across languages and continents.