abbot of misrule
master of revels (especially at Christmas time), also known as abbot of unreason (Archaic) | ||||
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abbot of misrule
abbot of misrule
abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in genoa...
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abbot of misrule
abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in genoa...
see also abbot
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Lord of Misrule
The Lord of Misrule, known in Scotland as the Abbot of Unreason and in France as the Prince des Sots, was an officer appointed by lot at Christmas to preside over the Feast of Fools. The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia. The Church held a similar festival involving a Boy Bishop. The celebration of the Feast of Fools was outlawed by the Council of Basel that sat from 1431, but it survived to be put down again by the Catholic Queen Mary I in England in 1555.
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