MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01711cam a22002534a 4500
001 2010035480
003 DLC
005 20110616083141.0
008 100818s2011 nyub b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2010035480
020 $a9780801449567 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0801449561 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn660161879
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aGT4995.F6$bH37 2011
082 00 $a394.25/09$222
100 1 $aHarris, Max,$d1949-
245 10 $aSacred folly :$ba new history of the Feast of Fools /$cMax Harris.
260 $aIthaca [N.Y.] :$bCornell University Press,$c2011.
300 $ax, 322 p. :$bmap ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-314) and index.
505 0 $aI: Before the Feast of fools -- The Kalends of January -- The Holy City of Byzantium -- Roman games -- Herod in Germany -- Tossing a ball in a French cathedral -- II: Shaping the Feast of Fools -- The Feast of the Subdeacons -- The Feast of the ass -- The complaints of innocent III -- The office of the circumcision -- The plays of Daniel and Joseph -- III: Supporting the feast of fools -- Chapter support -- Rumors of disorder -- A spirited defense -- Youth groups, coal dust, and cow dung -- Outside France -- IV: Suppressing the Feast of Fools -- Jean Gerson and the Auxerre affair -- Trouble in St.-Omer and Noyon -- Troyes, sens, and the Council of Basel -- Rereading the letter from Paris -- A durable feast -- V: Beyond the Feast of Fools -- Festive societies -- Innocents and fools -- King of the Breeches -- Our lady of the Trellis -- Mother Fool -- Epilogue: orange peel in Antibes.
650 0 $aFeast of Fools$xHistory.