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Offers a collection of fifty-three essays. This book reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. It shows that Renaissance thinkers revived ancient ideas about what inspires laughter and whether it could ever truly be innocent.

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"Lavishly erudite, digressive.... Screech commands the intellectual and literary history of the sixteenth century.... The finished book is a provocative, wide-ranging work of cultural history." (Times Literary Supplement)

Laughter at the Foot of the Cross

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/15/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226245119, 978-0226245119
      ISBN10: 022624511X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a collection of fifty-three essays. This book reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. It shows that Renaissance thinkers revived ancient ideas about what inspires laughter and whether it could ever truly be innocent.

      Trade Review
      "Lavishly erudite, digressive.... Screech commands the intellectual and literary history of the sixteenth century.... The finished book is a provocative, wide-ranging work of cultural history." (Times Literary Supplement)

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