Sacred Folly: a new history of the Feast of Fools

I'll admit I'm a sucker for anything medieval-looking, so the cover caught my eye first. Then the description on the inside of the dust jacket.  The subject--a minor, not-very-widespread Christian festival--also appealed to me.

Densely written, this will appeal more to scholars thaan to general readers. To me, it reads almost like a thesis, very dry and pedantic in spots. That being said, I found it fascinating. The way the author meticulously tracks down misconceptions of the feast, going back to the origial sources and pointing out ways in which the history of the feast was distorted in the past, showed a keen eye for detail and analysis. It was heavy going in some spots, so I think I'll reward myself with something a little less dense: a delightful history of the mointain dulcimer.