Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of Fools
My paper explores the late-medieval image of the ship of fools. The metaphor originates in the fifteenth-century carnivals of Europe and was depicted in Sebastian Brant’s 1494 compilation, Das Narrenschiff. The paper explores the underlying dynamic of the imagery and its origins in carnivalesque rit...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/687 |