A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools: The Laon Ordo Joseph

A newly identified medieval play for the Feast of Fools, with a new English translation and musical edition ready for performance.

Scholars and non—scholars alike have long been fascinated by the medieval "Feast of Fools", the annual celebration on or around the New Year that came to be known for its inversion of established hierarchies, its boisterousness, and its scurrilous, even sacrilegious, clerical behaviour. However, we now know that many of the most obscene and subversive practices a...