The Politics of Carnival

Festive Misrule in Medieval England

• Author(s): Chris Humphrey,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 113
• ISBN_10: 0719056039
  ISBN_13: 9780719056031
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485) , History / Europe / Medieval , Political Science / General , Social Science / Customs & Traditions ,

Description:... In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the popular medieval festival. The most remarkable of its many genres was misrule, those festive occasions on which a temporary and dynamic upside-down world of boy-bishops and Christmas kings was created. This book, the first in-depth study of the role of misrule in medieval England, uses original source material to argue for a more creative approach to the interpretation of these lively and topsy-turvy customs.