{"product_id":"sacred-folly-9780801479496","title":"Sacred Folly","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real history and meaning of the Feast of Fools—usually misunderstood as a sacrilegious festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax Harris has responded to the challenge laid down by Aimé Chérest more than 150 years ago, to produce fresh ideas on the Feast of Fools... \u003ci\u003e. Sacred Folly\u003c\/i\u003e is a splendid response to Chérest's challenge, clear headed, well structured, based on very wide reading and sensitively handled material. It deserves to be widely read.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jean Dunbabin * Medium Aevum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Feast of Fools has provided modern imaginations with a suggestive picture of medieval clerical dissolution. Popular fiction has found the picture irresistible.... What Max Harris's stunning new book, \u003ci\u003eSacred Folly\u003c\/i\u003e, reveals is that the phenomenon has been grossly misrepresented in scholarly literature, too. Harris dismantles prevailing accounts of the Feast of Fools piece by piece, disentangling the historical evidence from the imaginative projections of generations of scholars.... \u003ci\u003eSacred Folly\u003c\/i\u003e puts the historical discussion of the Feast of Fools on an entirely new footing.\u003c\/p\u003e -- William Robins * The Journal of Medieval Latin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrologue: A Letter from Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Before the Feast of Fools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Kalends of January\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Holy City of Byzantium\u003cbr\u003e 3. Roman Games\u003cbr\u003e 4. Herod in Germany\u003cbr\u003e 5. Tossing a Ball in a French Cathedral\u003cb\u003ePart II. Shaping the Feast of Fools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Feast of the Subdeacons\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Feast of the Ass\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Complaints of Innocent III\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Office of the Circumcision\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Plays of Daniel and Joseph\u003cb\u003ePart III. Supporting the Feast of Fools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Chapter Support\u003cbr\u003e 12. Rumors of Disorder\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Spirited Defense\u003cbr\u003e 14. Youth Groups, Coal Dust, and Cow Dung\u003cbr\u003e 15. Outside France\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Suppressing the Feast of Fools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Jean Gerson and the Auxerre Affair\u003cbr\u003e 17. Trouble in St.-Omer and Noyon\u003cbr\u003e 18. Troyes, Sens, and the Council of Basel\u003cbr\u003e 19. Rereading the Letter from Paris\u003cbr\u003e 20. A Durable Feast\u003cb\u003ePart V. Beyond the Feast of Fools\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 21. Festive Societies\u003cbr\u003e 22. Innocents and Fools\u003cbr\u003e 23. King of the Breeches\u003cbr\u003e 24. Our Lady of the Trellis\u003cbr\u003e 25. Mother Fool\u003ci\u003eEpilogue: Orange Peel in Antibes\u003c\/i\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405160128855,"sku":"9780801479496","price":24.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801479496.jpg?v=1730488930","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sacred-folly-9780801479496","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}