Humour and Humanism in the RenaissanceAuthor :
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Published : Monday 10 June 2019
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The common theme of these studies is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and FranAois Rabelais. The first section in this book, Humanist Wit, concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled Serious Humanists because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the minor authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: Rire est le propre de lhomme.
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