Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition here:  https://bibliopen.org/9781644531792 . The open access edition is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In  Hostile Humor in Renaissance France , Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and des