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Four Fools in the Age of Reason

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Four Fools in the Age of Reason

By Dorinda Outram

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About the book

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 to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who emerges not only as an administrative reformer and notorious militarist but also as a ""master of fools,"" a ruler who used fools to prop up his uncertain power. The autobiography of the itinerant fool...Show more

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ISBN

9780813942018

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Four Fools in the Age of Reason

Format

Hardcover

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