Four Fools in the Age of Reason: Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany

ISBN-13: 9780813942018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str.

Dorinda Outram

Opis

Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Outram's book is invaluable for giving us a vivid depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of power in Enlightenment Europe.