Four fools in the age of reason : laughter, cruelty, and power in early modern Germany /

Outram, Dorinda,

Four fools in the age of reason : laughter, cruelty, and power in early modern Germany / Dorinda Outram. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource. - Studies in early modern German history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : numerus stultorum infinitus est -- Jacob Paul Gundling : the honor of historians and fools -- Salomon Jacob Morgenstern : newspapers, professors, and playing the fool -- Joseph Frohlich : of owls and other animals -- Peter Prosch : the last court fool -- Two deaths : the Hanswurst and the fool -- Conclusion : the end of the journey.



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Fools and jesters--History--Germany--18th century.


Electronic Books.

GT3670 / .F687 2019