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Feast of Fools

The Feast of Fools or Festival of Fools (Latin: festum fatuorum, festum stultorum) was a feast day on 1 January celebrated by the clergy in Europe during the Middle Ages, initially in Southern France, but later more widely. During the Feast, participants would elect either a false Bishop, false Archbishop, or false Pope. Ecclesiastical ritual would also…

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Feast of Fools

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related to Bibliography · 49
Feast of Fools → Anne Dhu, Another Source, Arlt, Arno Volk Verlag, Baltzer, Beauvais, Beauvais Feast, Bedeutung, Benjamin, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Christmas, Circumcision, Cologne, Context, David, David Wulf, Ein Festoffizium, Essays
related to Origins · 40
Feast of Fools → Also, Another, Bethlehem, Catholic Church's, Central Europe, Christ's, Christian, Church, Circumcision, December, Due, Feast, Fools, France, Gerhoh, God, God's, He, Herod, Holy Roman Empire
related to Official condemnation · 34
Feast of Fools → Cardinal Odo, Catholic, Chapter, Church, Deposuit, During, Eudes, European, Feast, Festum, Fools, France, He, Hence, In, It, Laetemur, Lord, Magnificat, Misrule
related to Connections to other holidays · 21
Feast of Fools → April, April Fools, As, Ass, Carnival, Christmas, Church, Circumcision, Due, European, Feast, Fools, Gregorian Calendar, Halloween, March, Mardi Gras, Much, New Year's Day, Prior, Since
related to In popular culture · 20
Feast of Fools → Alan Gordon's, Church, Feast, Fools, Fools Guild, Fools' Guild, In Disney's, January, King, Not, Notre-Dame, Pope, Quasimodo, Rome's, The, The Feast, The Hunchback, Topsy Turvy, Twelfth Night, Victor Hugo
related to Historiography · 15
Feast of Fools → Chambers, Christian, Feast, Fools, Harris's, Infanterie Dijonnaise, Jean Bénigne Lucotte, Max Harris's Sacred Folly, Memoires, New History, Possibly, Qui, The, The Mediaeval Stage, Tilliot
related to End of the Feast · 13
Feast of Fools → Amiens, Basel, Belgium, Brussels, Catholics, Council, Fools, France, Paris, Protestants, The Feast, Trent, University
related to External links · 9
Feast of Fools → Catholic Encyclopedia, Charles, Feast, Fools, Herbermann, Music, New York, Robert Appleton Company, This

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Ordo Rachelisinstance ofAlso this was during the medieval theatre historical backdrop of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Catholic Church's discouragement of theatre for being pagan and imm…0.80text
passion playsinstance ofAlso this was during the medieval theatre historical backdrop of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Catholic Church's discouragement of theatre for being pagan and imm…0.80text
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyArlt0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyDavid Wulf0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyEin Festoffizium0.60section
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Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyBeauvais0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyBedeutung0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyCologne0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyArno Volk Verlag0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyVols0.60section
Feast of Foolsrelated to BibliographyFassler0.60section

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