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Author Outram, Dorinda, author.

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in early modern German history
Studies in early modern German history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731.
Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731.
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785.
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785.
Fröhlich, Joseph, 1694-1757.
Fröhlich, Joseph, 1694-1757.
Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804.
Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804.
Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804.
Frohlich, Joseph, 1694-1757.
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785.
Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731.
Fools and jesters -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
Fools and jesters.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Germany -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 18th century.
Courts and courtiers.
Germany -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Germany -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780813942025 (electronic book)
0813942020 (electronic book)
9780813942018
0813942012