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Four Fools in the Age of Reason

Innbundet • 2019 • 1. utgave

Four Fools in the Age of Reason

Av 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 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...Vis mer

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ISBN

9780813942018

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University of Virginia Press

Publiseringsår

2019

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1

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Four Fools in the Age of Reason

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Innbundet

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