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The Feast of Fools or Festival of Fools (Latin: festum fatuorum, festum stultorum) was a feast day on January 1 celebrated by the clergy in Europe during the Middle Ages, initially in Southern France, but later more widely. [1] During the Feast, participants would elect either a false Bishop, false Archbishop, or false Pope.
On the day of her wedding to the artist Brum, Stephanie elopes with the undertaker Max at the autumn equinox.Thus begins an epic novel encompassing astrology, astronomy, antiquarian glossaries, mortuary science, fencing guilds, love, sex and Commedia Dell’Arte, spanning the dream-lives of a community of modern day characters during the medieval carnival season of Fasching.
Feast of Fools may refer to: The Feast of Fools, a medieval feast day; The Feast of Fools, a 1994 novel; Feast of Fun, formerly titled Feast of Fools, a talk show podcast; The Festival of Fools, a street festival in Belfast
The Feast of the Ass (Latin: Festum Asinorum, asinaria festa; French: Fête de l'âne) is a medieval Christian feast observed on 14 January, celebrating the flight into Egypt. It was originally celebrated primarily in France, as a by-product of the Feast of Fools celebrating the donkey -related stories in the Bible , in particular the donkey ...
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It also may be worth mentioning that Bruegel's picture doesn't depict an actual Feast of Fools celebration, at least according to art historian Keith Moxey in 'Pieter Bruegel and The Feast of Fools,' The Art Bulletin, Vol. 64, Dec 1982, pp. 640-646: "Bruegel's subject is more closely linked to the pictorial conventions of his day than to ...
Dan Miron suggests [8] that its prototype may be found in a fictional town Ksalon [a], a Biblical name כְּסָלוֹן, Kesalon/Ksalon may allude to the Hebrew word kesil/ksil (כסיל), "fool", [9] [10] from his story Beseter ra'am (Hebrew: בסתר רעם), [b] a satirical description of life in a shtetl in Russian Empire.
The Festival of Fools is an annual Street Festival held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, usually during the May Bank Holiday weekend. It first started in 2004 [1] and includes performances from around the world. Performers are paid a fixed amount and money collected from audiences at the end of each show is used to fund the next years show.