Feast of Asses
Either of two parodic liturgies associated with the Feast of Fools. One honoured Balaam’s Ass; the other, celebrated 14 January, honoured the ass of the Flight into Egypt. It featured ...
lord of Misrule
Traditionally a man presiding over games and other revelry over the Christmas season, especially in a wealthy household, at the Inns of Court, at Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, and at civic ...
versus
Generally, any chant verse; specifically, 11th- and 12th-century versified Latin chants, many strophic with a refrain, often designated versus in Aquitainian MSS, in other regions conductus or ...
