Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
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Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

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Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

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This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition here: https://bibliopen.org/9781644531792. The open access edition is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Content
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 · The Affaire des Placards and the Early Stages of Pamphlet Warfare
  9. 2 · Early Evangelical and Reformist Comic Theater
  10. 3 · Artus Désiré, Renaissance France’s Most Successful, Forgotten Catholic Polemicist
  11. 4 · Geneva’s Polemical Machine
  12. 5 · Abbeys of Misrule on the Stage
  13. 6 · Ronsard the Pamphleteer
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index