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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 |
'''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> |
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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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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.[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.