Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Outram, Dorinda, author.

Title Four fools in the age of reason : laughter, cruelty, and power in early modern Germany / Dorinda Outram
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in early modern German history
Studies in early modern German history.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2019)
Subject Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731.
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785.
Fröhlich, Joseph, 1694-1757.
Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804.
SUBJECT Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804
Frohlich, Joseph, 1694-1757
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785
Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731
Fröhlich, Joseph, 1694-1757 fast
Gundling, Jacob Paul, Freiherr von, 1673-1731 fast
Morgenstern, Salomon Jakob, 1706-1785 fast
Prosch, Peter, 1744-1804 fast
Subject Fools and jesters -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Courts and courtiers
Fools and jesters
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Germany -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 18th century
Germany -- Court and courtiers -- Biography
Germany -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813942025
0813942020