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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2013-12-01
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| description | 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 rituals as well as how the motif was exploited by Brant, becoming a literary force at the turn of the sixteenth century. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75dd350b24674abd98bae4e80089c43e2022-12-22T16:22:37ZengUniversity of EdinburghForum1749-97712013-12-011710.2218/forum.17.687687Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of FoolsZita Turi0Eötvös Loránd UniversityMy 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 rituals as well as how the motif was exploited by Brant, becoming a literary force at the turn of the sixteenth century.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/687 |
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| title | Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of Fools |
| title_full | Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of Fools |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of Fools |
| title_short | Vessels of Passage: Reading the Ritual of the Late-Medieval Ship of Fools |
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| url | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/687 |
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