The highest respected officials swapped with the lowest, serving maids became masters and a king of misrule was crowned. Although originally intended to be confined only to the hallowed halls of churches, the common people took it upon themselves to celebrate. There were parades, comic performances, costumes, cross-dressing, bawdy songs and, of course, drinking to excess.
Sounds like a holiday for Lemmy
Credit to chronicle - medical history
This image seems like the colored version of this engraving of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1550s:
More info on wikipedia about the feast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Fools
So it's possible that this is not actually a historical illustration, but contemporary, as Bruegel lived from 1525 to 1569, and they still practiced this feast during that time in some places, he could see a feast like this with his own eyes.
Unrelated: the credit is a post on youtube? never seen such a thing I was looking for a play button there.
Ah cool thanks for adding. Yea some channels make posts of text and images and they show up in the community tab of the channel. Only crediting them as that’s how I saw it, not as originator of the art