Drinkers Masses, to include Gamblers Masses (Latin: Missa Potatorum, Officium Lusorum), was a genre of medieval Latin poetry which parodied the Roman CatholicLatin Mass in order to make fun of drinking and gambling monks and clerics. These masses were written between about 1100 and 1700 by clerici vagantes (wandering clerics), with the first example being the gamblers mass (officium lusorum), found in the Carmina Burana. The genre is somewhat related to other medieval ecclesiastic parody, such as the Feast of Fools and the Feast of the Ass.
These parody masses generally follow line for line the words of the Latin Mass, as well as quotations from the Latin Vulgate. They are carefully reworded to create a parody of the Mass, with themes such as Bacchus, the god of wine, and Decius, the god of dice (Decius was also the name of a Roman emperor), replacing the "Dominus" and "Deus" (Lord and God) of the Mass. There is much imagery of dice being used in gambling, and of drinking cups, wine, and taverns, ending with losing all of one's possessions, including clothes, through drinking and gambling.
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Bayless, Martha (1996). Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition. University of Michigan Press. ISBN9780472106493 – via Google Books.
Purdie, Rhiannon (2000). JA Burrow; IP Wei (eds.). "Dice-games and the blasphemy of prediction". Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages. Boydell and Brewer: 167–184. doi:10.1017/9781846150098.011. ISBN9780851157795 – via Google Books.
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Collection of medieval drinkers and gamblers masses
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