Hayes Bruce - Hostile Humor In Renaissance France - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In sixteenth - century France the level of jokes irony and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared. This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. Hayes explores this phenomenon in the context of the Catholic and Protestant conflict to reveal new insights about the society that both exploited and vilified this kind of satire.
Title: Hostile Humor In Renaissance France
Author(s): Hayes Bruce
Publisher: University Of Delaware Press
Barcode: 9781644531785
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 4/23/2020
Category: Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700