Sacred Folly A New History of the Feast of Fools
In this work, Max Harris rewrites the history of the Feast of Fools, showing that it developed in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as an elaborate and orderly liturgy for the day of the Circumcision - serving as a dignified alternative to rowdy secular New Year festivities
History
Specialized.
1 online resource (336 p.)
9780801461934, 9780801461613, 0801461936, 0801461618
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I: Before the Feast of fools
The Kalends of January
The Holy City of Byzantium
Roman games
Herod in Germany
Tossing a ball in a French cathedral
II: Shaping the Feast of Fools
The Feast of the Subdeacons
The Feast of the ass
The complaints of innocent III
The office of the circumcision
The plays of Daniel and Joseph
III: Supporting the feast of fools
Chapter support
Rumors of disorder
A spirited defense
Youth groups, coal dust, and cow dung
Outside France
IV: Suppressing the Feast of Fools
Jean Gerson and the Auxerre affair
Trouble in St.-Omer and Noyon
Troyes, sens, and the Council of Basel
Rereading the letter from Paris
A durable feast
V: Beyond the Feast of Fools
Festive societies
Innocents and fools
King of the Breeches
Our lady of the Trellis
Mother Fool
Epilogue: orange peel in Antibes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
English