Laughter at the Foot of the Cross - Couverture souple

Screech, Michael A.; Grafton, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022624511X ISBN 13 : 9780226245119

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it.” So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one.

But we are fortunate in our guide: drawing on his immense knowledge of the classics and of humanists like Erasmus and Rabelais—who used Plato and Aristotle to interpret the Gospels—and incorporating the thoughts of Aesop, Calvin, Lucian of Samosata, Luther, Socrates, and others, Screech shows that Renaissance thinkers revived ancient ideas about what inspires laughter and whether it could ever truly be innocent. As Screech argues, in the minds of Renaissance scholars, laughter was to be taken very seriously. Indeed, in an era obsessed with heresy and reform, this most human of abilities was no laughing matter.

Biographie de l'auteur :

M.A. Screech is an Extraordinary Fellow of Wolfson College and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Fellow of University College London. He is a renaissance scholar of international renown. His other books include Erasmus: Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly (1988), Rabelais and Montaigne and Melancholy. All are acknowledged to be classics in their fields. Screech was promoted Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Mérite in 1982 and Chevalier dans la Légion d'Honneur in 1992. He was ordained, in Oxford, a deacon in 1993 and a priest in 1994.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022624511X
• ISBN 13: 9780226245119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352