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	Utopianism. Who is Utopianism? What is Utopianism? Where is Utopianism? Definition of Utopianism. Meaning of ...
		Humans were simple and -- with the exception of the Land of Cockaygne (see below) -- pious, and felt themselves close to the gods.
		The Land of Cokaygne [also spelled Cockaygne or Cockaigne] (in the German tradition referred to as Schlaraffenland) has been aptly called the "poor man's heaven", being a popular fantasy of pure hedonism and thus a foil for the innocent and instinctively virtuous life that is depicted in all the other accounts mentioned above.
		Cockaygne is a land of extravagance and excess rather than simplicity and piety.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Utopianism (983 words)

	Thelema Lodge Calendar for April 2002 e.v.
		Cockaygne is the ultimate daydream, a land not simply of plenty but of hyper- abundance.
		Some folklorists have concluded that the Cockaygne tradition, most likely maintained by popular oral performances in conjunction with Carnival, may have been partly based upon hallucinations of abundant food experienced by hungry victims of famine or practitioners of monastic fasting.
		Cockaygne is an alternative to paradise, a heaven on earth, an anarchic utopia, a harmonized commonwealth of perpetual plenty, a working man's Abbey of Thelema.
	www.billheidrick.com /tlc2002/tlc0402.htm (4363 words)

	The Land of Cockaygne Concordance: Introduction
		The unknown Middle English author depicts an unapologetically sensual paradise, and his language and images are touched with a joie de vivre that removes the harsh edge of true satire from this poem’s portrayal of a monastic paradise.
		The dream of [Cockaygne] was conjured up again and again in an attempt to satisfy more material longings than those endorsed by the church.
		In their accumulated beauty, one may perhaps begin to see how amazing a sight the crystal, coral, and jaspar pillars of the Cockaygne abbey might have been, and how stunning might have been the jeweled streambeds of the healing springs that flowed next to it.
	www.unc.edu /~ksburton/lapidary/introloc.html (738 words)

	The Land of Cockaygne: Introduction
		A few of the Middle English items, like Cockaygne itself and the long drinking song (making fun of local clerics and tradesmen) which follows it, were clearly for amusement; but most of the Middle English content is didactic, verse sermons and lyrics designed for the instruction of the laity.
		The Land of Cockaygne is a fictional and parodic otherworld, drawing on three main traditions:
		Goliardic verse: one Latin poem of the twelfth century (Carmina Burana 222) is spoken by an abbas Cucaniensis, an 'abbot of Cockaygne' who presides over drinking and gambling, and the descriptions of the two abbeys in Cockaygne, which invert the usual norms of religious life, echo themes found elsewhere in Goliardic poetry (e.g.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~wpwt/trans/cockaygn/cockaygn.htm (441 words)

	Cockaygne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Land of Cockaygne is one of the so-called Kildare-poems, named after a manuscript, Ms Harley 913, compiled in the second half of the 13th century near the Abbey of Kildare, Ireland.
		In 93 octosyllabic couplets the poet depicts a utopian land of abundant delights of sloth, food, drink, and sexual freedom.
		There is every joy, free from strife and all ill. The rivers are oil and milk and wine and honey.
	web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /~holteir/companion/Navigation/Text_Groups/Tales/TalesHumorous/Cockaygne/cockaygne.html (255 words)

	Poverty-free Futures
		One is the myth of “The Land of Cockaygne”, the land of milk and honey, the “golden age” where the nature provides abundant resources and the magic bowl of porridge never empties.
		It is the idea and the image about the harmony between humanity and nature rather then the image of domination and control of the nature by humanity so as to produce society and civilisation.
		Throughout European history, the Land of Cockaygne was especially popular during medieval ages and among lower classes which sought to relieve the drudgery of their everyday lives “through the pure satisfaction of sensual pleasures” (Hollis, 1998:14).
	www.metafuture.org /articlesbycolleagues/IvanaMilojevic/Ivana_Milojevic_Poverty_free_futures.htm (3364 words)

	The Land of Cokaygne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A few of the Middle English items, like Cockaygne and a drinking song making fun of local clerics and tradesmen, were clearly for amusement.
		Believed visited by Alexander the Great, it often was placed far to the East (though Dante in his Divine Comedy locates it in the Antipodes, at the tip of the mountain of Purgatory).
		Goliardic: one Latin poem of the twelfth century (Carmina Burana 222) is spoken by an abbas Cucaniensis, an 'abbot of Cockaygne' who presides over drinking and gambling, and the descriptions of the two abbeys in Cockaygne, which invert the usual norms of religious life.
	www.thegoldendream.com /landofcokaygne.htm (1112 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 21 (February 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Parodies of this fantasy substance—spice—have been emerging ever since its positing as the object of mercantile desire.
		For instance, there is the satire The Land of Cockaygne (c.1305).
		The Cockaygne legend, however, proved to be a much more effective component of capitalist than of feudal ideology.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~scat0385/21morton.html (4661 words)

	Morton, "The Confection of Spice: Historical and Theoretical Considerations," page 1 of 8, _The Poetics of Spice: ...
		Long after the demise of Roman cuisine, Europeans heard about spices from reports brought back from the Crusades.
		Literary fantasies about spice flourished —legends of the Land of Cockaygne and descriptions of Paradisal gardens as in Le Roman de la Rose, fantastic medical discourses, and so forth.
		The search for the Terrestrial Paradise, a land of inexhaustible plenty, became a realisable objective.
	www.rc.umd.edu /bibliographies/CUP/morton/morton1.html (1692 words)

	Scots Members of the French Nobility
		In any event, I find the story rather dubious, but here it is.
		This last case is rather interesting, because the heraldic consequences last to this day (see Cockaygne vol.1 appendix B, and Stodart for a near-full account).
		James Hamilton, 2nd earl of Arran, was regent of Scotland during the minority of Mary Queen of Scots (he was in fact heir presumptive, being her second cousin through his grandmother, and next in line for the throne).
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/scotfr.htm (6246 words)

	The Land of Cockaygne Concordance: Resources
		CELT Project: This site has full-text online versions of The Land of Cockaygne in
		introductory comments on The Land of Cockaygne, as well as a
		bibliography of additional print resources ("Background details and Bibliographic Information") on the Anglo-Irish "Kildare" poems (including The Land of Cockaygne) is available at the CELT Project site, which provided an invaluable starting point for my own research into The Land of Cockaygne.
	www.unc.edu /~ksburton/lapidary/resourcesloc.html (496 words)

	From Nebuchadnezzar to Negroponte: Three Millennia of Millennialism
		When medieval peasants heard of the lion and the lamb, they thought of a "classless society." Hence the peasant slogan "when Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" This revolutionary millennialism of the lower classes aimed to transform the world back into an Edenic classless utopia, a land of plenty for all.
		Late medieval English peasants called this land "Cockaygne." It would have rivers of wine, etc. Our American version is the "big rock candy mountain."
		The orthodox in the Middle Ages, skeptical about the perfectibility of humans or of the world, dismissed such beliefs as "judaizing": just like the poor to think with their stomachs, and cleave to a material new age based on a literal reading of scripture.
	www.albany.edu /offcourse/fall99/millenniumbis.html (8042 words)

	medievalbookshop - AEG0012
		Overall good condition: transparent laminate is peeling from the covers; some light pencil marking on a few pages.
		Coverage is largely post-medieval, but takes Cockaygne and Thomas More as its starting points; prints a modern translation of Cockaygne as an appendix
		Click for details of how to order this book
	www.medievalbookshop.co.uk /aeitems/AEG0012.shtml (108 words)

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		Besides these greater works, an enormous number of fables and satires appeared in this age, copied or translated from the French, like the metrical romances.
		The most famous of these are "The Owl and the Nightingale,"--a long debate between the two birds, one representing the gay side of life, the other the sterner side of law and morals,--and "Land of Cockaygne," i.e.
		Read, for instance, the ballads of the "merrie greenwood men," which gradually collected into the _Geste of Robin Hood_, and you will understand better, perhaps, than from reading many histories what the common people of England felt and thought while their lords and masters were busy with impossible metrical romances.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10609/10609-8.txt (18916 words)

	[Marxism]‘LIFE OF LUXURY’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And we will be able to afford protection in a crazy world.
		It is a dream for the masses, The Land of Cockaygne televised.
		Man, wake up!) Never-Ending Caviar Dreams and Bling-Bling Wishes By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, TV REVIEW
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2003-December/001781.html (568 words)

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