The highest respected officials swapped with the lowest, serving maids became masters and a king of misrule was crowned. Although originally intended to be confined only to the hallowed halls of churches, the common people took it upon themselves to celebrate. There were parades, comic performances, costumes, cross-dressing, bawdy songs and, of course, drinking to excess.

Sounds like a holiday for Lemmy

Credit to chronicle - medical history

  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This image seems like the colored version of this engraving of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1550s:

    More info on wikipedia about the feast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Fools

    The Feast of Fools was officially forbidden by the Council of Basel in 1431 and again in a document issued by the theological faculty of the University of Paris in 1444; numerous decrees of lower level provincial councils followed. […] though instances of festivals of this kind survived in France as late as 1721, in Amiens, France, and Brussels, Belgium in 1719.

    So it’s possible that this is not actually a historical illustration, but contemporary, as Bruegel lived from 1525 to 1569, and they still practiced this feast during that time in some places, he could see a feast like this with his own eyes.

    Unrelated: the credit is a post on youtube? never seen such a thing I was looking for a play button there.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Ah cool thanks for adding. Yea some channels make posts of text and images and they show up in the community tab of the channel. Only crediting them as that’s how I saw it, not as originator of the art