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Article: Humor
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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HUMOR
HUMOR.
Aristotle, in
De partibus animalium,
defined man as a being capable of laughter, but laughter is not, as some optimists have claimed, a universal language. Its function and importance differed so widely, even during our historical period, depending on national, social, and other variables, that it is far easier to ask questions than to answer them. Why did (and do) some Christians, like Jacques-B
é
nigne Bossuet (1627
–
1704), strongly disapprove of laughter? Is there any common element uniting the hearty, even crude, laughter provoked by carnival merrymaking and slapstick comedy (French farces and
sotties,
Spanish
pasos,
the Italian commedia dell'arte) and the ...
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