A "Fest of the Asses" (especially in France), which somehow correlates to the "Feast of Fools", was celebrated at various places and had as theme "the flight to Egypt" (holy family). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Asses A Rouen manuscript of the 13th century exhi...

Thanks for those posts, Huck. As I understand it many carnival festivals do not have a continuous history but died out during the course of the 1700s and were not restarted until the following century. And it shows in one of the pictures that you posted which was similar to this one that I posted i...

Scenes from TV-Series: "The Borgias"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borgia ... _series%29

As long as it works:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Obadiah1and ... UKXi4uy4gE

TV-series 1981: "The Borgias" in 50 youtube-parts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borgias_%281981_TV_series%29 As long as it works: http://www.youtube.com/user/Obadiah1and6#p/u/50/pUKXi4uy4gE A second series "The Borgias" was made 2011 (I first confused the both versions): Trail...

Interesting art ... http://www.spurensuche.de/06_gebete/x_bilder_2005/fastnachtsbrunnen.jpg The Mainzer Fastnachtsbrunnen, made 1967 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/0/09/Mainz_Fastnachtsbrunnen.JPG/800px-Mainz_Fastnachtsbrunnen.JPG ... with about 200 carnival-defined figures http://up...

I've read this book of Foucault, which has 562 pages.

http://www.antipsychiatrieverlag.de/ver ... t_wahn.htm

The online English version has only 304 ... I would assume, that it isn't complete.

This is about the Cologne Tarock deck, compare ... http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=650 The text are partly taken from .. http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/1999/0212/0212.pdf ... “Löblich wird ein tolles Streben, Wenn es kurz ist und mit Sinn” - KARNEVAL IN KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF UND AACHEN...

The Cologne Tarock of c. 1847 has definitely some association to Olympic gods , mixed with some popular local figures (Father Rhine, Bauer, Agrippina). *********** Some new researches about Cologne Carnival lead to the result, that there had been a " Olympische Gesellschaft zu Köln " befor...

In research of some question about carnival I found this representation of a scientific dissertation in a Karnevalsforum: http://www.karnevalistenforum.de/thread.php?threadid=537 ... Dissertation von Frohn, KARNEVAL IN KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF UND AACHEN 1823 – 1914 .. [Frohn, S. 26] Als problematisch stell...

I open a new thread about carnival Where? I cant find it. .... I dont remember why, but when I read (many years ago) the Foucault's bock, I dont think the "ship of fools" exists out the literary or picture reality. .... In Italia seem usually use ships (as bucintoro) in the triumphal para...