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HISTORY OF COURT FOOLS.
THE
HISTORY OF COURT FOOLS.
BY
DR. DORAN,
AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS,’ ‘HABITS AND MEN,’ ‘LIFE OF YOUNG, THE POET,’
‘QUEENS OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER,’ ‘KNIGHTS AND THEIR DAYS,’
‘MONARCHS RETIRED FROM BUSINESS,’ ETC.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1858.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
TO
HEPWORTH DIXON,
THIS FRIENDLY HOMAGE
FROM
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| The Fool,—of Legend and Antiquity | 1 |
| The Fool by Right of Office | 41 |
| The Female Fools | 62 |
| The Oriental “Noodle” | 68 |
| English Minstrel and Jester | 84 |
| English Court Fools, from the Reign of Edmund Ironside | 99 |
| The Court Fools of France | 239 |
| Jesters in the Northern Courts of Europe | 300 |
| The Spanish Jesters | 316 |
| The Fools of the Imperial and Minor Courts of Germany | 322 |
| The Jesters of Italy | 352 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |