The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 225
169 THE BURLESQUE FESTIVALS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. leaps sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, shielding himself as well as he can … V. THE ABBOT OF MISRULE. The processions and ceremonies which we have just mentioned appear to be the remains of the Saturnalia of the middle ages in a degraded form. They appear also to have been preserved in England under the superintendence of an abbot of misrule, or (as he was termed in…
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