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This rich novel will satisfy Burke's fans and should draw new ones who have not yet had the privilege of reading his works.” —Library Journal “James Lee Burke is, quite simply, a genius, an exemplar of all that is great in American ...
In this fascinating interpretation of contemporary culture and theology, Harvey Cox examines both the loss and reemergence of festivity and fantasy in Western civilization.
The problem with this popular account—intriguing as it may be— is that it is wrong.In Sacred Folly, Max Harris rewrites the history of the Feast of Fools, showing that it developed in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries as ...
The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy
Feast of Fools: Ononharoia : how to Become an Idiot - a Guide
Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J. “La fiesta de las calendas de Enero enla obra de Libanio.” Florentia Iliberritana 14 (2003): 265–80. Rabelais, François. Gargantua and Pantagruel. Trans. J. M. Cohen. London: Penguin, 1955.
Feast of Fools
This collection offers unique insight into the kind of poems performed during these "feasts of fools." The last four poems are by two of the most famous medieval Latin poets, Walter of Chytillon and Peter of Blois, the canonist.
"Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing"
This is salute to my fellow fools whose company I most frequently abide –And to the stupid, brainless, dimwitted acts to which I have often guilty of.