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

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

Studies in Early Modern German History

Dorinda Outram

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Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations. Outram takes us first...

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