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Narrenschiff
''Ship of Fools'' (Modern German: , la, Stultifera Navis, original medieval German title: ) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant. It is the most famous treatment of the ship of fools trope and circulated in numerous translations. Overview Ship of Fools was published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant. The book consists of a prologue, 112 brief satires, and an epilogue, all illustrated with woodcuts. Brant takes up the ship of fools trope, popular at the time, lashing with unsparing vigour the weaknesses and vices of his time. He conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. The concept of foolishness was a frequently used trope in the pre-Reformation period to legitimise criticism, as also used by Erasmus in his ''Praise of Folly'' and Martin Luther in his "" (''Address to the Christian Nobility''). Court fools were allowed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrenschiff Titelblatt
''Ship of Fools'' (Modern German: , la, Stultifera Navis, original medieval German title: ) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant. It is the most famous treatment of the ship of fools trope and circulated in numerous translations. Overview Ship of Fools was published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant. The book consists of a prologue, 112 brief satires, and an epilogue, all illustrated with woodcuts. Brant takes up the ship of fools trope, popular at the time, lashing with unsparing vigour the weaknesses and vices of his time. He conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. The concept of foolishness was a frequently used trope in the pre-Reformation period to legitimise criticism, as also used by Erasmus in his ''Praise of Folly'' and Martin Luther in his "" (''Address to the Christian Nobility''). Court fools were al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1458 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire '' Das Narrenschiff'' (''The Ship of Fools''). Biography Brant was born in Strasbourg to an innkeeper but eventually entered the University of Basel in 1475, initially studying philosophy and then transferring to the school of law. From 1484 he began teaching at the university and completed his doctorate in law in 1489. In 1485 he had married Elisabeth Bürg, the daughter of a cutler in the town. Elisabeth bore him seven children. Keen for his eldest son Onophrius to become a humanist, he taught him Latin in the cradle and enrolled him in the university at the age of seven. Brant first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Neo-Latin poetry but, realising that this gave him only a limited audience, he began translating his own work and the Latin poems of others into German, publishing them through the press of his friend Johann Bergmann, from whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1497 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published 1491: * Immanuel of Rome, ''Mahberot Imanu'el'', published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy 1492: * Savonarola, ''Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis'', criticism; Italy * Jorge Manrique, ''Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre'' ("Couplets on the Death of His Father" or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ), Spanish lyric poem 1493: * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, ''Mizan al-Awzan'' ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems 1494: * John Lydgate, ''The Fall of Princes'', 36,000-line poem translated c. 1431–1438 from the ''De casibus illustrium virorum'' of Boccaccio (see also Lydgate's ''Proverbs'' 1510), posthumously publishedCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grobian
Saint Grobian (Medieval Latin, ''Sanctus Grobianus'') is a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. His name is derived from the Middle High German or , meaning coarse or vulgar. The Old High German cognate is , . The word "grobian" has thus passed into the English language as an obscure word for any crude, sloppy, or buffoonish person. History The satirist Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) conceived Saint Grobian as the patron saint of coarse manners in his famous poem '' Das Narrenschiff'' (1494). ''Das Narrenschiff'' describes the worship paid to this new saint. Grobian is found later in several works of the period. Friedrich Dedekind (1524-1598) published ''Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres'' in 1558 at Cologne. Here Grobian is a counselor who teaches men on how to avoid bad manners, gluttony, and drunkenness. Dedekind's work appeared in England in 1605 as ''The Schoole of Slovenrie: Or, Cato turned wrong side outward'', published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1494 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published 1491: * Immanuel of Rome, ''Mahberot Imanu'el'', published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy 1492: * Savonarola, ''Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis'', criticism; Italy * Jorge Manrique, ''Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre'' ("Couplets on the Death of His Father" or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ), Spanish lyric poem 1493: * Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, ''Mizan al-Awzan'' ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems 1494: * John Lydgate, ''The Fall of Princes'', 36,000-line poem translated c. 1431–1438 from the ''De casibus illustrium virorum'' of Boccaccio (see also Lydgate's ''Proverbs'' 1510), posthumously publishedCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship Of Fools
The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato's ''Republic'', about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: The concept makes up the framework of the 15th-century book ''Ship of Fools'' (1494) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Hieronymus Bosch's painting, ''Ship of Fools'': a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. In it, Brant conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. In literary and artistic compositions of the 15th and 16th centuries, the cultural motif of the ship of fools also served to parody the "ark of salvation", as the Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ship Of Fools
The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato's ''Republic'', about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: The concept makes up the framework of the 15th-century book ''Ship of Fools'' (1494) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Hieronymus Bosch's painting, ''Ship of Fools'': a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. In it, Brant conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. In literary and artistic compositions of the 15th and 16th centuries, the cultural motif of the ship of fools also served to parody the "ark of salvation", as the Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1509 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain * Anonymous, ''Richard Coeur de Lion'', written about 1300, a mix of historical and romance elements * Antoine de la Sale, anonymously published, publisher: Wynkyn de Worde; a translation of the original work * Alexander Barclay, also known as ''The Ship of Fools'', translated mostly from Latin and French versions of the satire ''Narrenschiff'', also known as ''Stultifera Navis'' ("Ship of Fools") 1494 by Sebastian Brandt (see also Henry Watson version published this year); London: Wynkyn de Worde * Stephen Hawes: ** London: Wynkyn de Worde ** on the coronation of Henry VIII; London: Wynkyn de Worde ** * Henry Watson, , translated from J. Drouyn's French prose version of Sebastian Brandt's 1494 satire ''Narrenschiff'', also known as ''Stultifera Navis'' ("Ship of Fools"; see also Alexander Barclay's version pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question. Satire is found in many a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance Humanism In Northern Europe
Renaissance humanism came much later to Germany and Northern Europe in general than to Italy, and when it did, it encountered some resistance from the scholastic theology which reigned at the universities. Humanism may be dated from the invention of the printing press about 1450. Its flourishing period began at the close of the 15th century and lasted only until about 1520, when it was absorbed by the more popular and powerful religious movement, the Reformation, as Italian humanism was superseded by the papal counter-Reformation. Marked features distinguished the new culture north of the Alps from the culture of the Italians. The university and school played a much more important part than in the South according to Catholic historians. The representatives of the new scholarship were teachers; even Erasmus taught in Cambridge and was on intimate terms with the professors at Basel. During the progress of the movement new universities sprang up, from Basel to Rostock. Again, in Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reutlingen
Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which was founded in 1855, originally as a weavers' school. Today, Reutlingen is home to an established textile industry and also houses machinery, leather goods and steel manufacturing facilities. It has the narrowest street in the world, Spreuerhofstraße (width 31 cm). Geography Reutlingen is located about south of the State capital of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. It lies in the Southwest corner of Germany, right next to the Swabian Jura, and that is why it is often called ''The gateway to the Swabian Jura'' (german: link=no, Das Tor zur Schwäbischen Alb). The Echaz river, a tributary of the Neckar, flows through the city centre. Along with the old university town of Tübingen (about to the west), Reutlingen is the centre of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Watson (poet)
Henry Watson may refer to: * Henry Watson Jr. (1810–1891), American lawyer and planter * Colonel Henry Watson (1737–1786), British military engineer * Henry William Watson (1827–1903), British mathematician *Henry Winfield Watson (1856–1933), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania * H. B. Marriott Watson (1863–1921), Australian-born British novelist, journalist, playwright, and short-story writer *Henry Holgate Watson (1867–1939), druggist and political figure in British Columbia *Henry Keith Watson, member of the "L.A. Four", who participated in the beating of Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles riots *Henry Watson (born 1813), former slave who recounted his experiences in '' Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave'' * Henry Watson Powell (1733–1814), British officer during the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War See also * Harry Watson (other) *Henry Watson Fowler Henry Watson Fowler (10 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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