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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.
In England, the Lord of Misrule – known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots – was an officer appointed by lot during Christmastide to preside over the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools was a medieval feast day on 1 January that the clergy in southern France started. The Feast of Fools later spread to other countries, and it consisted of plays of different sorts acted by secular guilds, called sociétés joyeuses, roughly meaning “company of fools," and other times known as confréries, which means ...
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 ...
The Feast of Fools was especially important in the development of comedy. The festival inverted the status of the lesser clergy and allowed them to ridicule their superiors and the routine of church life.
He was appointed by lot, and has been compared to the medieval Lord of Misrule at the Feast of Fools. His capricious commands, such as "Sing naked!" His capricious commands, such as "Sing naked!" or "Throw him into cold water!", had to be obeyed by the other guests at the convivium : he creates and (mis)rules a chaotic and absurd world.
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The Carnival, or feast of fools, is a religious celebration where people consume copious amounts of food and wine and have a large party to celebrate. The grotesqueness in the carnival is seen as the abundance and large amount of food consumed by the body.