Chronicles of Folly, both traditional and iconoclastic, agree on the momentousness of the fool's appearance in Europe,

on the cusp between collapsing medieval values and an emergent Renaissance ethos,

as a spokesperson and an icon of the new age identified with its defining philosophical movement, humanism.

From Natural F fools and the

historiography of Renaissance Folly. Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English

History podcast a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in

touch with our own humanity. This is episode 128, and it's about court-fool during the tutor and early Stewart period.

And before we get started, I want to remind you about TudorCon and specifically the TudorCon

digital ticket. We're about two months away from the world's first ever TudorCon. I am so excited.

I cannot wait to hang out with you and 120 or so of our new best friends in manhine

Pennsylvania it's going to be a gorgeous weekend in october i hope i can't guarantee the weather

but i suspect we're going to get together to have three days of learning from tutor experts

we're going to see a musical hang out and dance to period music have a feast go to the renaissance

fair it's just going to be a tutorific weekend so, go to the Renaissance Fair. It's just going to be a

tuterific weekend. So you go to Englandcast.com slash TudorCon 2019 for more information.

But if you can't come in person, we have a digital ticket available. And for those of you who

listen to the show right when it comes out, yay for you. We have this special. If you order your digital ticket by the end of

August 15th, I'll leave it till the early morning hours of August 16th. You'll receive the same

swag bag as the in-person ticket holders. And I have to order the swag. So that's why I have this

deadline on it, right? So Englandcast.com slash tutor con 2019. And this is kind of my last note. I've been sending out all kinds of emails about it and Facebook posts and Twitter and all that kind of stuff. So again, if you order by, say, early August 16th, you'll get the same swag bag as the in-person ticket holders. The Tudercan swag bag, all the stuff that's in it. It'll be like being there in person, but not.

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