
UT Pictura Poeta
Ute Tischer, Ursula Gartner, Alexandra Forst
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Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books
by Lucy Perry, Alexander Schwarz
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The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. From representations of irreverent acts to full-blown insanity, fools appeared on the misericords of gothic churches and in the plots of Arthurian narratives, before achieving a wider prominence in literature and iconography in the decades around 1500. But how are we to read these figures appropriately?
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