They had a lot of competition. My favorite book on early-modern religious wack is Blasphemy, immorality, and anarchy : the Ranters and the English Revolution
There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood: their conduct is morally dubious. Such saints are called ‘holy fools’. They existed in Byzantium for about 1,000 years, but nearly vanished in modern Greece. In Russia, however, they are deeply worshipped by the believers up till this day. In this book holy foolery is treated as a cultural phenomenon: as a spontaneous response of the religious consciousness to the secularization of the church. The author has repudiated the traditional ‘Orthodox’ paradigm; he discovered a great number of Byzantine and Old Russian sources dealing with holy fools. By adopting a diachronic approach, this book identifies the prerequisites for this phenomenon, traces the way it was shaped in the religious mind. A holy fool comes into existence as an instinctive protest against the insipid, mundane existence of Christians who lost the scope for the blinding light of the Celestial. Holy foolery is a reaction to the diminution of the Absolute. The book tracks down holy foolery from its origins in Egyptian monasteries through its evolution in the cities of Byzantium, describes its prime and decline, followed by a new flourish and a gradual fading on Greek soil. It then proceeds to analyze Russian holy foolery, which borrowed some elements from the Byzantine model, but also reinterpreted it quite a bit. The book also considers other phenomena similar to holy foolery, in the Western medieval world, as well as the Islamic one.
i'll post a link in the place 
Hmanm might like that mixickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:56 pm i like calling ursula "marketa lazarova meets the devils"
i am not sure to what degree it is mad, but "children’s crusades" sound pretty mad.https://letterboxd.com/film/little-crusader/
Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children’s crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek’s crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
https://letterboxd.com/film/eighty-letters/
The story takes place in Czechoslovakia in 1987. The father has defected to England and the mother and her son are planning to leave the country to reunite with him. The film is told through the eyes of the fourteen year old boy, his rankled look without the veneer of experience and initiation in one day. Autobiographical.
children's crusades! god, where did i read about them last...eeehrm, aha maybe norman cohn's pursuit of the millenium (also contains all of the above mad stuff too)ickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:24 am i am postponing&postponing&postponing to finally watch LITTLE CRUSADER (Václav Kadrnka, 2017)i am not sure to what degree it is mad, but "children’s crusades" sound pretty mad.https://letterboxd.com/film/little-crusader/
Knight Borek is searching for his missing son. Enthralled by the stories of children’s crusades, little Jan has run away from home. Borek’s crusade is a journey into his own subconscious, where he is forced to confront his greatest fear.
no need! it's here!ickykino tweeovalis wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:08 am sooner or later, i will certainly go for it (so i will keep on my mind to place it in Res.).
i like docalliance, but they do stretch their idea of 'documentary' further than most. lunatics. 
Definitely sadder. I thought it held together better than Pigeon too.
Hey Joks, I was a bit worried about your absence a few days ago when you hadn't posted for nearly a month. Glad to know you're ok, mate!
Thanks mate!
Just been extremely busy at work and with other personal matters. I will be posting more often now!
Fair enough, I'd have to rewatch to know how I feel about his performance here. This reminds me that I should buy the Doctor X and Mystery of Wax Museum blu-rays to support people bringing out Atwill in HD.
