'''Jester's privilege''' is the ability and right of a [[jester]] to talk and mock freely without being punished; for nothing he says seems to matter.

[[Martin Luther]] used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.<ref name=hub /> In the introduction to [[To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation]] he calls himself a court jester, and, later in text, he explicitly invokes the jester's privilege when saying that monks should break their chastity vows.<ref name=hub>{{citation |title= Ethical consensus and the truth of laughter: the structure of moral transformations |volume= 4 |series= Morality and the meaning of life |author= Hub Zwart |publisher= [[Peeters Publishers]] |year= 1996 |isbn= 9789039004128 |page= 156 |url= http://books.google.es/books?id=zkQFtzp0ZwMC }}</ref>

==References==

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* [http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ckank/FultonsLair/013/nock/jester.html The King's Jester: Modern style], [[Albert Jay Nock]], [[Harper's Magazine]], March 1928

* [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2007.00454.x/abstract Alla: the Jester-Queen of Russian pop culture]

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=_tsRAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65&lpg=RA1-PA65&dq=Jester's+privilege&source=bl&ots=l6oKezas2n&sig=UZtereCRK0vhM800c5cfmKEF-5I&hl=en&ei=uLbZTIT3Ion2swPAvoiECA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&sqi=2&ved=0CEcQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Jester's%20privilege&f=false The London Quarterly Review]

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=N-NhBJwuw3IC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Jester's+privilege&source=bl&ots=M6SGNHVjlZ&sig=p_RnOIgL5OUgTk-_pOqlWat4r5w&hl=en&ei=uLbZTIT3Ion2swPAvoiECA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Jester's%20privilege&f=false The wit of Martin Luther]

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=qycVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA509&dq=Jester's+privilege+dictionary&hl=en&ei=hLfZTJqAGYP98Ab80-XeCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQuwUwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false The new international encyclopæeia, Volume 5]

* Hub Zwart (1999) The truth of laughter: Rereading Luther as a contemporary of Rabelais. Dialogism. An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies, 1 (3), 52-77. [https://www.academia.edu/729183/The_truth_of_laughter_rereading_Luther_as_a_contemporary_of_Rabelais]

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