Thomas More's Humor in his Religious Polemics
Thomas More's humor was influenced by his studies of Greek Old and New Comedy and Lucian's Dialogues. He was fascinated by the multiple ways human follies could be exposed to provoke laughter. Although aware of the anti-laughter tradition of the Early Church Fathers, he asserted that the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
[2016]
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Moreana
Year: 2016, Volume: 53, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 7-50 |
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Lutheran heresies
B Religious Polemics B Lucian B Lucian's Dialogues B Catholic doctrine B Martin Luther B Simon Fish B William Tyndale B Anticlericalism B Greek Old Comedy B Humor B Thomas More |
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