Editing Wild man (section)

===Late Medieval===
King [[Charles VI of France]] and five of his courtiers were dressed as wild men and chained together for a [[Masquerade ball|''masquerade'']] at the tragic ''[[Bal des Ardents|Bal des Sauvages]]'' which occurred in Paris at the [[Hôtel Saint-Pol]], 28 January 1393. They were "in costumes of linen cloth sewn onto their bodies and soaked in resinous wax or pitch to hold a covering of frazzled hemp, so that they appeared shaggy & hairy from head to foot".<ref>Barbara Tuchman;A Distant Mirror, 1978, Alfred A Knopf Ltd, p504</ref> In the midst of the festivities, a stray spark from a torch set their flammable costumes ablaze, burning several courtiers to death; the king's own life was saved through quick action by his aunt, [[Joanna II of Auvergne|Joann]], who covered him with her dress.

The Burgundian court celebrated a {{lang|fr|[[pas d'armes]]}} known as the {{lang|fr|[[Pas de la Dame Sauvage]]}} ("Passage of arms of the Wild Lady") in Ghent in 1470.
A knight held a series of jousts with an allegoric meaning in which the conquest of the wild lady symbolized the feats the knight must do to merit a lady.

Some early sets of [[playing cards]] have a suit of Wild Men, including a pack engraved by the [[Master of the Playing Cards]] (active in the [[Rhineland]] c. 1430–1450), some of the earliest European engravings. A set of four miniatures on the estates of society by [[Jean Bourdichon]] of about 1500 includes a wild family, along with "poor", "artisan" and "rich" ones.