Fortune, Empress of the World
Who were we, and who have we become?
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5 min readJan 19, 2022
What accounts for the enduring attraction Carmina Burana, a contemporary orchestral setting of the songs of a band of 13th-century goliards? Perhaps modern rebellious spirits identify with those wandering scholars and divinity students as they partied their way across late medieval Europe, satirizing late medieval society along with the then…
