Heinrich Bebel, Facetiae. Jokes and Funny Stories from the Sixteenth Century

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Heinrich Bebel, Facetiae. Jokes and Funny Stories from the Sixteenth CenturyOverview Jokes and funny stories concerning outstanding witticisms and hilariously foolish utterances, for the most part expressed in elegant Latin, were held in high regard by humanists across Europe from the second half of the fifteenth century onwards. It was thus as a matter of national and regional pride that Heinrich Bebel (1472 731518), humanist poet and academic at the south west German University of Tbingen, compiled his three books of

manifested according to cultural milieu and social status

mainly from manuscript archival sources

The edited pamphlets are worth reading alone for the editors’ annotations that offer lively backstories on the suggested innuendo of Chettle’s phrasings and sometimes wry remarks

a controversial topic that is still current

and Linguistics at York University

“‘Free and Willing to Remit’: Women’s Petitions to the Court of Aldermen

an almost unheard-of occurrence in Tudor treason trials

University of London

Prince of Wales”

Reviewed by Marco Faini

ISBN: 978-0-7727-1170-0

a confrontation point between Venice and the Ottoman Empire

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