Martine Clouzot
Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean
The Dancing Fool and the mundus inversus
Fools teem in the initials, miniatures, and illuminated margins of medieval manuscripts.
Variously portrayed next to King David, forming farandoles and dances of death, or taking part in the Feast of Fools, the fools represent, with extraordinary cultural continuity, a brilliant and scholarly model of the world, that of the mundus inversus.