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The Zoque Carnivals of Northwestern Chiapas, Mexico Reference library
Gillian E. Newell
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture
...of Romanic and Catholic origin, giving credibility to another important but oft-neglected historical point of influence: the Feast of Fools. Revisionist Max Harris clarifies that the Feast of Fools was undertaken in the Early Middle Ages by lower-ranked clergy, first in Northern France, and then throughout the Catholic Kingdom. 4 Inspired by the writings of Saint Paul, lower-ranked clergy chose and were allowed temporally to exalt and enact God’s witty liturgical wisdom instead of the morally heavier daily and strongly rule-based religious dogma of the...
Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in North America Reference library
Peter C. Mancall
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...modern Saint Augustine on the east coast of Florida in 1513 , and Hernando de Soto, who led an epic journey from Cuba into the interior of the Southeast from 1539 to 1541 , providing Europeans with their first sustained views of the modern states of Georgia , Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and eastern Texas . In 1540 a conquistador named Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led his troops northward from Mexico and into the Southwest on a fool’s quest for the fabled city of Cíbola, rumored to be a land of gold and jewels. He made it as far as ...
Early African Pasts: Sources, Interpretations, Meanings Reference library
David Schoenbrun
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources
...The use of bowls to feast near a mosque and the desire for beads of glass from India or the Persian Gulf, rather than beads of local shell, raises questions about the entanglement of affective and intellectual life with public eating and the importance of worldliness as a symbol of standing and authority. 62 Imports, properly displayed and used with locally produced things like ironwork, shell beads, pots, ivory, copper jewelry and boxes, and possibly gold bundled the enormous range of a high-status feast thrower’s network with the sensorium of the tasty...
