Boy into Bishop: A Festive Role Reversal
Christmas is a time for children... an adage the Middle Ages took literally by promoting choir boys into bishops at ceremonies linked to the festive season.
Many aspects of medieval life and thought seem strange and perplexing to us today. Certainly the ceremonies of the Boy Bishop appear to be among some of the strangest manifestations of ecclesiastical practice.
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