Peter Burke's Traditional Forums

The riotous nature of amusement park or Mardi Gras as it is called in the United States, functions as an opportunity to protest the rigorous fasting and deprivation that will go by duri

g Lent and the cast-iron control of the Church over life in early modern Europe as well as a permitted and thereby controlled opportunity to enjoy life.

The paradox outlined by Burke (1978) is that by permitting such things as public executions, floggings, and another(prenominal) punishments, society in early modern Europe send a strong message to the public about the

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