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The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... Had significant roles both in folk festivals and at court from early medieval times through to the sixteenth century. In the former, they were associated with ritual disruption of established order, a role deriving from the New Year ‘Feast of Fools’ revelries, in which church and cathedral hierarchies were reversed, and inferiors temporarily usurped the roles of their superiors. The fool's traditional costume of parti-coloured hood and suit, with bells, a fool's head on a stick, and sometimes ears and a tail, was also adopted by the court fool, or king's...
