Carnival and all your history

Monsieur du Tillot, French nobleman, in 1751 wrote "The Memory on the Party of the Lunatics", some of the antecedents of the Carnival. This celebration, nowadays hedonist and sensual, you have Christian precedents and you have received many interpretations.

We could go back to the saturnales of conventional Rome, when during the parties all dressed tñunica and cap (the gorrodel released slave) and the servants were served by the master. During the Half Age, the Church set up a "spree-remuneration" spice for the young clergymen and the children of the choirs, as compensation to your dedication to the liturgy in the solemn holidays. Those games were overflowing and a street great din that subverted the established order symbolically became.

They left this way setting up diverse celebrations (the Party of the Children in December or the Party of the Ass in January) and finally, the Party of the Lunatics, the pre Carnival. There the town could behave to the crazy thing, because you were considered the demented an illuminated one for heaven's sake that could see that that other not, although that would involve a wild-type behavior that gave loose rein to the sexual appetites. You had in them cavalcades, versos, satirical songs, you parody (dummy masses) and you entornizaba to the Abbot of the Lunatics.

The Carnival is born toward the XV century, overcoming to the pagan cult a spring, and you are admitted by the Church like outlet valve in the last days before the Lent. This party urban mark the step of the Half Age to the Rebirth, and although in the XVII century the bishops put on in guard before the look that you/they were taking the things, you never supposed an actual threat to the dominant order. The elements that remain of the Party of the Lunatics are the retinue with music and dances (but with topics of bigger inventive, obscenity and present time that those of the ecclesiastical games), as well as the attractive wardrobes and the masks that favor the anonimity.

At the present time, you stay your urban aspect, the city councils participate actively for example in the cavalcades, but the absence of religious sense has denaturalized the Carnival, assimilating it to other desmadres like End of Year, or you have made possible, for ejepmlo, carnivals in different times of the schedule, far from the in the past feared Lent. Anyway, every February a series of cities competes in carnivals.