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Extension of Feast of Fools -- Carnival [Rhi's LTarot Post]
If you'd like to read in depth about urban dramas of the Renaissance,
read CARNIVAL in ROMANS by Le Roy Ladurie. Carnival was an important
Saturnalian-like festival which featured foolish frivolity and has
impacted popular culture to this day (i.e. Mardi Gras celebrations in
New Orleans, Louisiana and in Brazil).
Le Roy Ladurie Emmanuel originally published in France under the title
Le Carnaval du Romans. Romans specialized in textiles and was located
southeast of Lyons (France) in what once was the province of Dauphiné.
This book gives a fascinating account of class struggles while
examining urban and rural life in France with a focus on the time
period of 1579-1580. The book give colorful accounts of the festivals
against a draconian taxation burden. These passionate class struggles
become bloody; tarot cards from decks such as Ancien Tarot De
Marseille and the Visconti-Sforza Tarot are good at depicting raw
emotions and passions of the human person against a
government/religious/economic backdrop. Read Le Roy Ladurie's
CARNIVAL in ROMANS and you'll be reaching for the cards. This is a
multi-faceted historical work of nonfiction. You can read this book
to get a feel for what the festivals were like at the time and also as
an economic analysis. This is the Renaissance at the beginning of the
Baroque Age and is even more lively and passionate because it takes
place during the Reformation (Catholic Counter-Reformation).
There are some websites that cite Le Roy Dadurie:
"Singing Outlaws and Beggars with Whips: Variety in the Louisiana French
Mardi Gras"
http://ccet.louisiana.edu/Mardi_Gras_Outlaws_Whips.html
"There are, however, other communities that have preserved features
of the French fêtes de la quémande (which could occur anywhere between
Christmas and May Day, depending on local custom), as well as what
appear to be remnants from ancient springtime fertility rituals (cf.
Vaultier 1965; Van Gennep 1937), including what LeRoy Ladurie
described as "Saturnalian role reversals" and "Lupercalian animal
masquerades and floggings" (1979:310)."
Une Saison en enfer: La gitanilla*
From: Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 5.2
(1985): 87-127.
http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/articf85/terhors t.htm
"Carnival has become ... a special new-critical season,
and one in which, precisely, the orgiastic and demonic are seen as
being liberated. An excellent example is Gustavo Pérez's "Carnival in
Don Juan Tenorio," Hispanic Review 51 (1983), p. 269-81. As with LeRoy
Ladurie's Carnival in Romans, the emphasis is on the monstruous, le
démon du midi. But while he certainly does not minimize the gross and
the malign, Cervantes' progression in La gitanilla is in the direction
of a contrapuntal opulence and blessedness, a true paradise of wealth
as distinguished from the paradis artificiels of the romantics, of
Baudelaire, of Zorrilla."
the html version of the file
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/gsp/taughtma/approaches _ren_concepts.pdf
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:jV7ubsr8ySAJ:www.york .ac.uk/depts/engl/gsp/taughtma /approaches_ren_concepts.pdf +LeRoy+Ladurie+Carnival+in +Romans&hl=en&client=firefox-a
"Autumn 2004: approaches to renaissance studies: concepts, methods
and values."
"week 10: microhistory 2: since Mikhail Bakhtin's 1940's
anti-Stalinist parable, Rabelais and his World, and more particularly
since the libertarian politics of 1968, the notion of the
carnivalesque has been much in the air. A swift but fleeting cure for
all forms the secret key to the social structures of early-modern
Europe. This seminar looks at at Romans Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie's
classic account of how class conflicts were acted out in the village
of Romans in the winter of 1579."
There are some useful resources listed in a seminar (from the
University of Maine) that examines the evolution of European or
Western Civilization from Antiquity to the eve of the French
Revolution with an emphasis environmental and social aspects of the
Middle Ages leading to the entire period. Rhianna believes that this
encompasses an important time of the strengthening and stabilization
of tarot.
http://www.umaine.edu/history/courses/HTY517/SYLL517.pdf
On-line at http://www.umaine.edu/history/courses/hty517
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