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Feast of Fools

Feast of Fools   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
246 words
generic name for the New Year revels in European cathedrals and collegiate churches, when the minor clergy usurped the functions of their superiors and burlesqued the services of the ... More
Fools, Feast of

Fools, Feast of   Reference library

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Length:
65 words

*Festival associated with the Feast of the Circumcision (1 January). Enduring from the 11th century on despite ecclesiastical condemnation, it

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