The Lord of Misrule: A Medieval Christmas Concert

Speaker
Sirinu
Event date
Event time
16:30 - 20:30
Venue
St Hilda's College
The Chapel, 38 St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LW
Event type
Concerts
Event cost
£20
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Recommended

Two performances of the same programme: 4.30pm & 7pm

Sirinu invite you to experience the pre-reformation Christmas with music from the English popular carol tradition. The Christmas period – from the appointment of the Lord of Misrule to Epiphany – was celebrated with an elaborate series of feasts and ceremonies in late medieval England and abroad. By the 15th century men wearing monkish habits chose a lunatic fellow to parade as ‘Lord of Misrule’ and commemorated the ‘Feast of Fools’ with street plays. In today’s concert we mark this by interspersing festive English songs of the period with selections from the Piae Cantiones collection from 1582, from which so many of our modern day carols are taken.

VENUE: The Chapel, 38 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LW