Carnaval et politique au XVIe siècle : de la cohésion sociale à la subversion de l’ordre public. Le point de vue d’Erasmus Sarcerius, réformateur de Leipzig

In February 1551, Erasmus Sarcerius, a Lutheran pastor in the Reformed city of Leipzig, published two sermons whose primary goal was to gain the cooperation of the civil authorities for outlawing carnival. It was not until a century later that…