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Four fools in the age of reason laughter, cruelty, and power in early modern Germany
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- Creator
- Dorinda Outram
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813942025, 9780813942018, 0813942012, 0813942020
- OCLC
- on1035291512, on1084655468
- Includes bibliographical references 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
Subjects
- Fools and jesters -- German -- History -- 18th century.
- Germany -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
- Germany -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
- Germany -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 18th century.
- Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804.
Children's Subject Heading
- Frohlich, Joseph, 1694-1757.
Children's Subject Heading
- Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785.
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- Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731.
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