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Author : Rachel Caine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440631565
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Feast of Fools written by Rachel Caine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674284982
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Feast of Fools written by Harvey Cox and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating interpretation of contemporary culture and theology, Harvey Cox examines both the loss and reemergence of festivity and fantasy in Western civilization. He evaluates both processes from a theological perspective, defining festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and defining fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. t speaks directly to such contemporary movements as the theology of hope, the rapidly disappearing radical theology, and the theology of culture. For many it will provide a new perspective on the renewal of religious life and the secular search for religious experience.
Author : Bridget Crowley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689865120
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Feast of Fools written by Bridget Crowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping mystery blends excitement and suspense with a memorable cast of characters and the sights and sounds of medieval England, making it a page-turner sure to compel readers everywhere.
Author : Max Harris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801461934
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred Folly written by Max Harris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, swung censers that gave off foul-smelling smoke, played dice at the altar, and otherwise parodied the liturgy of the church. Afterward, they would take to the streets, howling, issuing mock indulgences, hurling manure at bystanders, and staging scurrilous plays. The problem with this popular account—intriguing as it may be—is that it is wrong. In Sacred Folly, Max Harris rewrites the history of the Feast of Fools, showing that it developed in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries as an elaborate and orderly liturgy for the day of the Circumcision (1 January)—serving as a dignified alternative to rowdy secular New Year festivities. The intent of the feast was not mockery but thanksgiving for the incarnation of Christ. Prescribed role reversals, in which the lower clergy presided over divine office, recalled Mary’s joyous affirmation that God "has put down the mighty from their seat and exalted the humble." The "fools" represented those chosen by God for their lowly status. The feast, never widespread, was largely confined to cathedrals and collegiate churches in northern France. In the fifteenth century, high-ranking clergy who relied on rumor rather than firsthand knowledge attacked and eventually suppressed the feast. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians repeatedly misread records of the feast; their erroneous accounts formed a shaky foundation for subsequent understanding of the medieval ritual. By returning to the primary documents, Harris reconstructs a Feast of Fools that is all the more remarkable for being sanctified rather than sacrilegious.
Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982135115
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Feast Day of Fools written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed novel from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece. James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a serial killer presumed dead is very much alive…and where sheriff Hackberry Holland, now a widower, fights for survival—his own, and of the citizens he’s sworn to protect. When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert, Hackberry’s investigation leads him to Anton Ling, a mysterious Chinese woman known for sheltering illegals. Ling denies any knowledge of the attack, but something in her aristocratic beauty seduces Hack into overlooking that she is as dangerous as the men she harbors. And when soulless Preacher Jack Collins reemerges, the cold-blooded killer may prove invaluable to Hackberry. This time, he and the Preacher have a common enemy.
Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Feast of Fools written by Harvey Cox and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating interpretation of contemporary culture and theology, Harvey Cox examines both the loss and reemergence of festivity and fantasy in Western civilization. He evaluates both processes from a theological perspective, defining festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and defining fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He asserts that both are absolutely vital to contemporary human life and faith; both are a precondition for genuine social transformation. In a success and money-oriented society we need a rebirth of unapologetically unproductive festivity and expressive celebration. In an age that has quarantined parody and separated politics from imagination, we need a renaissance of social fantasy. It has been said over and over again that affluent Western man has been gaining the whole world while losing his soul. In the face of this Mr. Cox affirms the possibility and necessity of a resurgence of hope, celebration, liberation, and experimentation. The medieval Feast of Fools, from which he has taken his title, symbolizes both the problem and the process. Centuries ago it provided an opportunity for the choirboy to play bishop and for serious townsfolk to mock the stately rituals of church and court. The eventual disappearance of the custom in the sixteenth century, unlamented if not welcomed by those in authority, illustrates the concerns of this provocative and controversial essay. Mr. Cox does not propose that a medieval practice should be revived, but he does argue for a rebirth in our own cultural idiom of what was right and good about the Feast of Fools. It is likely that this book will become significant in wide circles. It speaks directly to such contemporary movements as the theology of hope, the rapidly disappearing radical theology, and the theology of culture. For many it will provide a new perspective on the renewal of religious life and the secular search for religious experience. For others it will function as a window into the experimental laboratories of the so-called "underground church." For everyone it is a refreshing encounter with a wholly new set of perceptive observations about the problems that plague us.
Author : J. HAYNES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042945944
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Education of Nuns, Feast of Fools, Letters of Love written by J. HAYNES and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three anthologies are all relatively unknown, particularly in the English-speaking world, outside of professional medieval Latinist circles. Though excerpts from the Regensburg and Ripoll poems have been published in English translation, only the Ripoll poems have been translated completely, and only into Spanish and French. Making these anthologies available in a bilingual edition with commentary will make the insight they provide into several aspects of medieval life accessible to medieval historians as well as the more general public. The Regensburg poems take the form of epistolary exchanges in Leonine hexameters, mainly between a male teacher and his female students, who appear to have been nuns. Some of the sixty-eight short poems imply an erotic relationship between teacher and student. The poems afford us rare glimpses into the education of women at this time. The Ripoll poems are a collection of twenty love poems, probably written in Lorraine around 1150 and copied in Ripoll. All twenty poems were written by a single unknown poet, except for one, a misogynistic poem also found in other manuscripts. The Chartres poems comprise seven performed at the post-Christmas festivities in Chartres around 1180, when the world was turned upside down in a carnivalesque suspension of the normal social order. This collection offers unique insight into the kind of poems performed during these "feasts of fools." The last four poems are by two of the most famous medieval Latin poets, Walter of Chytillon and Peter of Blois, the canonist.
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hunchback of Notre Dame Annotated written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. 'Our Lady of Paris') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.The novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, as well as numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film.
Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Feast of Fools written by Harvey Cox and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The feast of fools written by Harvey Cox and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
