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Augustin Calmet
Author_M.a. Screech
biblical exegesis
Book III
Category=JHB
Christian Comedy
Christian laughter
Christian truth
Christian Zeal
early modern Christianity
Easter Laughter
Eleventh Hour
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Ficino's Latin Translation
God of Jews
Holy Men
humanist philosophy
interpretation of laughter in scripture
Julius Exclusus
Latin Vulgate
Obscure Men
Pagan Antiquity
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Pierre Viret
Pio Da
religious satire
sacred humor studies
Seigneur De Langey
Stultifera Navis
theological irony
Tiers Livre
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367007300
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 149 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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“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 g
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 (Penguin, 1988), Rabelais and Montaigne and Melancholy. All are acknowledged to be classics in their fields. In Latin, he is the editor, with Anne Screech, of Erasmus' Annotations on the New Testament (in three volumes). His highly acclaimed edition of Montaigne's Complete Essays is published in Penguin Classics. Michael Screech was promoted Chevalier dans l'Ordre du Merite in 1982 and Chevalier dans la Legion d'Honneur in 1992.. He was ordained, in Oxford, a deacon in 1993 and a priest in 1994.
