Heinrich Wittenwiler
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Fool's literature was a literary tradition in medieval Europe in which a the stock character of a fool was used as an allegory to satirize the contemporary society.
Notable examples
- Der Ring (1410, The Ring), a satirical poem by Heinrich Wittenwiler
- Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam (1494; Ship of Fools), a poem by the German satirist Sebastian Brant
- Moriae Encomium, sive Stultitiae Laus (1509, The Praise of Folly), by Erasmus of Rotterdam
- Narrenbeschwörung (1512; Exorcism of Fools), Die Schelmenzunft (1512); Die Gäuchmatt (1519, Fools' Meadow), Die Mühle von Schwindelsheim und Gretmüllerin Jahrzeit by Thomas Murner
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