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'''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.<ref>[http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Narrenfreiheit.html English-German dictionary]</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 [[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 bows.<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= 9039004129, 9789039004128 |page= 156 |url= http://books.google.es/books?id=zkQFtzp0ZwMC }}</ref> |
[[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 bows.<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= 9039004129, 9789039004128 |page= 156 |url= http://books.google.es/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; for nothing he says seems to matter.[1]
Martin Luther used jest in many of his criticisms against the Catholic Church.[2] 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 bows.[2]
References
- ^ English-German dictionary
- ^ 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 9039004129, 9789039004128
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