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Lord of misrule plural lords of misrule in feudal britain a mock officer, appointed by lot, to preside over the feast of fools in a great household at christmas. Lord of misrule, official of the late medieval and early tudor period in england, who was specially appointed to manage the christmas festivities held at court, in the houses of great noblemen, in the law schools of the inns of court, and in many of the colleges at the universities of cambridge and. Pdf lord of misrule book the morganville vampires free. Perhaps one of the elders tongit, or even young thorin no. These records presently reveal that the quite apparent eruption of misrule in the late 1540s is not merely an accident of recordkeeping, but that cambridge lords of misrule and their theatrical revels were actively promoted by the militant edwardian administration at the colleges, just as they had been with reformers encouragement under henry.
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