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Catholic Piety and Leisure and Recreation
Stephanie Sjoblom
Catholic Piety
• Religion played a large role in community life and popular culture.
• People joined in religious festivals• Some priests wanted to fix some popular
religious practices that they saw as more superstitious than religious.
• Attempted changes on this varied widely because pious peasants saw this as an attack on their true faith.
Carnival
• Preceded Lent• It was a time for people to release frustration• Dancing, drinking, plays, and processions
Home Leisure
• Culture was still very vocal
• In colder months families would gather around fireplaces.-sing, tell stories, do crafts
• Women would often gather at each other’s houses to chat and sew.
• Men would often go out to bars and talk with their friends.
Entertainments
• Entertainments became very popular with all social classes.
• Urban fairs brought about new foods, acrobats, freak shows, open-air performances and the like.
• Matadors and heavyweight champions began making an appearance.
Blood Sports
• Bull baiting-staked on a chain and attacked by dogs-the bull was then sold for meat
• Cockfighting-carefully trained-armed with steel spurs-popular because of gambling