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Since 1449, on Shrove Tuesday, it was Carnival at Nuremberg, as Schembartlauf (the run of beautiful beards, Schön Bart Lauf). But in 1539, no more joking with impunity. The event was banned after a chariot in the procession has ridiculed the local Lutheran theologian, Osiander. Probably the following year, appeared the Schembartbuch. It provides a strict chronology of these celebrations, includi…