TileWeb: Yorkshire (Y045)

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County:	Yorkshire	Click on Image to see original watercolour
Town/Village:	York
Place Details:	St Mary's abbey
Artist and Date:	F Renaud 1886 May
Iconography:	Human figure
Copied from (Collection):	Soc of Antiq Ren III p 323
Watercolour Ref. No.:	Y045
Notebook: FMP
Portfolio: Jas P,
Notebook: IH	7
Other details:	A tile on which a cowled monk dressed up with a beast's body is represented, representing perhaps a phase in the Decembrian Feast of Fools or in the January Feasts of Drunken Clerks celebrated as late as the 14th century in various masquerades of women, lions, players etc and in which the forms of beasts were assumed vide Fosbrook's British Monacluson Du Cange and other authors.

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