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Renaissance Collections of facetiae, 1499-1528: A New Listing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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This is the continuation of a check-list whose first part included II compilations composed and/or published between 1343 and 1490 (RQ 39 [1986], 1—15). The time-span from 1343 to 1528 was chosen because during that period each collection of facetiae has its own individual flavor, a fact which has been insufficiently recognized because scholars studying facetiae have usually been collectors of plots or of folklore motifs. The same joke is often told, certainly, by a variety of compilers, but with a different purpose and in a different context. After 1530 the joke-books will be almost uniquely collective, and will thus lose their interesting individual character.
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