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Sacred Folly : A New History of the Feast of Fools /

For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clergy elected a burlesque Lord of Misrule, presided over the divine office wearing animal masks or women's clothes, sang obscene songs, swu...

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Main Author: Harris, Max, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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