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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 1 January, AD 400, the bishop Asterius of Amasea [10] in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey) preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends ("this foolish and harmful delight") [11] that describes the role of the mock king in Late Antiquity. The New Year's feast included children arriving at each doorstep, exchanging their gifts for reward: [10] [11]
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 ...
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.
Mr Garas and his team fed 500 people last Christmas [Middle Feast] Mr Garas said the restaurant would be serving meals between 12:00 and 14:00 GMT on 25 December as they had last year. He said ...
Fast-Food Flukes for Fools. Every year around the first of April, at least a few fast-food joints dish up some absurd gimmick, trying to pass it off as the latest and greatest menu item.
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.