A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools by Robert C... - 9781837650590

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A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of FoolsThe Laon Ordo Joseph\nAuthor(s): Robert C. Lagueux\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Boydell & Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781837650590, 978-1837650590\nSynopsis\nA newly identified medieval play for the Feast of Fools, with a new English translation and musical edition ready for performance.\n\nScholars and non-scholars alike have long been fascinated by the medieval \""Feast of Fools\"", the annual celebration on or around the New Year that came to be known for its inversion of established hierarchies, its boisterousness, and its scurrilous, even sacrilegious, clerical behaviour. However, we now know that many of the most obscene and subversive practices associated with the feast were, in fact, the misunderstandings, exaggerations, or even fabrications of overzealous ecclesiastical reformers.\n\nOur most reliable information about the Feast comes from the scant extant liturgical items that cler.