Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools by Max Harris

Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools

Max Harris

322 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history dark tense medium-paced
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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 m...

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