Feast of Fools
Americannoun
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“The marketing was all the happy stuff and ‘Come to the Feast of Fools; it’s a party!’ with talking gargoyles, confetti and pies in the face.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2021
So, 25 years after the Second Summer of Love, Feast of Fools are hosting an anniversary whistle-fest featuring the likes of Justin Robertson, Terry Francis and Sugarlump Sound System.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2013
In The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, forbade the celebration in churches of the "Feast of Fools," in which the clergy danced and gesticulated in masks.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
When in the fifteenth century and later the Feast of Fools was expelled from the churches of France, associations of laymen sprang up to carry on its traditions outside.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
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