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{{Short description|Putative right of jesters to speak freely without punishment}} |
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'''Jester's privilege''' is the ability and right of a [[jester]] to talk and mock freely without being punished. As an acknowledgement of this right, the court jester had symbols denoting their status and protection under the law: the crown ([[cap and bells]]) and scepter ([[marotte]]), mirroring the royal crown and scepter wielded by a monarch.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Medieval Jesters – And their Parallels in Modern America|url=http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2019/1/13/medieval-jesters-and-their-parallels-in-modern-america|access-date=2022-02-18|website=History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books {{!}} Modern International and American history|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Billington, Sandra. “''A Social History of the Fool'',” The Harvester Press, 1984. ISBN 0-7108-0610-8</ref> |
'''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. |
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As an acknowledgement of this right, the court jester had symbols denoting their status and protection under the law: the crown ([[cap and bells]]) and scepter ([[marotte]]), mirroring the royal crown and scepter wielded by a monarch.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Medieval Jesters – And their Parallels in Modern America|url=http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2019/1/13/medieval-jesters-and-their-parallels-in-modern-america|access-date=2022-02-18|website=History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books {{!}} Modern International and American history|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Billington, Sandra. “''A Social History of the Fool'',” The Harvester Press, 1984. ISBN 0-7108-0610-8</ref> |
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[[Martin Luther]] used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.<ref name=hub /> In the introduction to his ''[[To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation]]'', he calls himself a court jester, and, later in the 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= https://books.google.com/books?id=zkQFtzp0ZwMC }}</ref> |
[[Martin Luther]] used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.<ref name=hub /> In the introduction to his ''[[To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation]]'', he calls himself a court jester, and, later in the 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= https://books.google.com/books?id=zkQFtzp0ZwMC }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:11, 20 February 2022
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.
As an acknowledgement of this right, the court jester had symbols denoting their status and protection under the law: the crown (cap and bells) and scepter (marotte), mirroring the royal crown and scepter wielded by a monarch.[1][2]
Martin Luther used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.[3] In the introduction to his To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, he calls himself a court jester, and, later in the text, he explicitly invokes the jester's privilege when saying that monks should break their chastity vows.[3]
References
- ^ "Medieval Jesters – And their Parallels in Modern America". History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ^ Billington, Sandra. “A Social History of the Fool,” The Harvester Press, 1984. ISBN 0-7108-0610-8
- ^ a b Hub Zwart (1996), Ethical consensus and the truth of laughter: the structure of moral transformations, Morality and the meaning of life, vol. 4, Peeters Publishers, p. 156, ISBN 9789039004128
External links
- The King's Jester: Modern style, Albert Jay Nock, Harper's Magazine, March 1928
- Alla: the Jester-Queen of Russian pop culture
- The London Quarterly Review
- The wit of Martin Luther
- 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.