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Cockaigne or Cockayne (IPA: /kɔˈkeɪn/, /kɒˈkeɪn/) is a mythical medieval land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist. Specifically, in poems like The Land of Cockaigne, Cockaigne is a land of contraries, where all the restrictions of society are defied (abbots beaten by their monks), sexual liberty is open (nuns flipped over to show their bottoms), and food is plentiful (skies that rain cheeses). Writing about Cockaigne was a commonplace of Goliard verse. It represented both wish fulfillment and resentment at the strictures of asceticism and dearth. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne (Het Luilekkerland) 1567, Alte Pinakothek, Munich The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ...
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne (Het Luilekkerland) 1567, Alte Pinakothek, Munich The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ...
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The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ...
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A mythical place is a place that does not really exist but is accepted folklore or speculation that it might exist or might have existed in earlier times but its actual location is now lost. ...
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The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ...
Etymology of Cockaigne The word Cockaigne derives from Middle English cokaygne, traced to Middle French (païs de) cocaigne[1] "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for a small sweet cake sold to children at a fair (OED). The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious land"), and the German equivalent is Schlaraffenland (also known as "land of milk and honey"). In Spain, where cucaña is the cognate word for "fool"[citation needed], an equivalent place of Cockaigne is named Jauja, after a rich mining region of the Andes. Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...
Middle French (French: ) is a historical division of the French language which covers the period from (roughly) 1340 to 1611 [1]. It is a period of transition during which: the French language becomes clearly distinguished from the other competing Oïl languages which are sometimes subsumed within the concept of...
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Jauja is a town of 25,000 people in central Peru, capital of a province with a population of 105,000. ...
In the 1820s, the name Cockaigne came to be applied jocularly to London[2], as the land of Cockneys[3], and thus "Cockaigne", though the two aren't linguistically connected otherwise. The composer Elgar used the title "Cockaigne" for his overture (1901) and suite evoking the people of London. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
St Mary-le-Bow The term cockney refers to working-class inhabitants of London, particularly east London, and the slang used by these people. ...
Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt OM GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was a British composer, born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann. ...
The Dutch village Kockengen was named after Cockaigne. Kockengen () is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht (province). ...
Descriptions Like Atlantis and El Dorado, the land of Cockaigne was a fictional utopia, a place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations. In Specimens of Early English Poets (1790), George Ellis printed a 13th century French poem called "The Land of Cockaigne" where Picture of Platos description of Atlantis Atlantis (Greek: , Island of Atlas) is the name of a legendary island first mentioned in Platos dialogues Timaeus and Critias. ...
El Dorado (Spanish for the gilded one), a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust. ...
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- the houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing.
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- roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.
According to the New York Public Library (ref.), Cockaigne was a This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
- medieval peasant’s dream, offering relief from backbreaking labor and the daily struggle for meager food.
The Brothers Grimm collected and retold the fairy tale in The Tale About the Land of Cockaigne (Das Märchen vom Schlaraffenland). For information about the other uses of the name, see Brothers Grimm (disambiguation). ...
A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...
Traditions A Neapolitan tradition, extended to other Latin-culture countries, is the Cockaigne pole, a horizontal or vertical pole with a prize (like a ham) at one end. The pole is covered with grease or soap and planted during a festival. Then, men try to climb the pole to get the prize. The crowd laughs at the often failed attempts to hold to the pole. “Napoli†redirects here. ...
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Cockaigne in the arts - Cockaigne was depicted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in The Land of Cockaigne (1567, above).
- The poem, The Land of Cokaygne, [4] appears in BL Harley MS 913, ff. 3r-63v (The Kildare Poems, #1)
- The book, Dreaming of Cockaigne, by Herman Pleij (Columbia University Press, 2001) offers the most complete modern collection of information on the topic.
- The musical play, The Golden Dream, by Joe Syiek [5] tells the story of oppressed peasants who yearn for, attain and ultimately lose their ideal of Cockaigne.
- The album Land of Cockayne by Soft Machine, 1981.
- Cockaigne is the name of the kingdom which Princess Narda in the comic strip Mandrake the Magician comes from.
- Cockaigne (In London Town) is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar in 1901.
- Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis (I am the Abbot of Cockaigne) is a movement in Carl Orff's secular cantata, Carmina Burana.
- "Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne" is the heading of the second chapter of T. J. Clark's 2002 Tanner Lectures on Human Values "Painting at Ground Level".[6]
- In the popular cookbook The Joy of Cooking, the author's favorite recipes include "Cockaigne" in the name, (e.g., "Fruit Cake Cockaigne"), explained in the foreword to the 1975 edition as after the name of the Becker country home in Anderson Township, near Cincinnati, Ohio. [4]
- Cockaigne is the name of a small Australian record label, run by musicians Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
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Land of Cockayne is the final album by the band Soft Machine, released in 1981. ...
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Mandrake the Magician is a U.S. comic strip created in 1934 by Lee Falk (also creator of The Phantom) and mainly appearing in syndication in newspapers. ...
Cockaigne (In London Town), Op. ...
Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. ...
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Notes - ^ The modern French is cocagne, a dolt.
- ^ OED notes a first usage in 1824.
- ^ "Cockney" from a "cock's egg", an implausible creature (see also basilisk).
- ^ See articles in Cincinnati Enquirer, October 25, 2006,[1] and on CBS News website, November 1, 2006.[2]
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