See also:

• SEBASTIAN
• SEBASTIAN, ST

SEBASTIAN See also:

• BRANT, JOSEPH (1742-1807)
• SEBASTIAN BRANT (1457-1521)

BRANT (1457-1521)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German humanist and satirist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg about the See also:

• YEAR

year 1457 . He studied at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, took the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• LAWS

laws in 1489, and for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time held a professorship of See also:

• JURISPRUDENCE (Lat. jurisprudenlia, knowledge of law, from jus, right, and prudentia, from providere, to foresee)
• JURISPRUDENCE, COMPARATIVE

jurisprudence there . Returning to Strassburg, he was made See also:

• SYNDIC (Late Lat. syndicus, Gr. vivv&aos, one who helps in a court of justice, an advocate, representative, crap, with, and Sirc77, justice)

syndic of the See also:

• TOWN

town, and died on the loth of May 1521 . He first attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention in humanistic circles by his Latin See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and edited many ecclesiastical and legal See also:

• WORKS

works; but he is now only known by his famous See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, Das Narrenschifff(1494), a See also:

• WORK

work the popularity and See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of which were not limited to See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . Under the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of an See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory—a See also:

• SHIP

ship laden with See also:

• FOOLS, FEAST OF (Lat. festum stultorum, fatuorum, follorum, Fr. fete des fous)

fools and steered by fools to the fools' See also:

• PARADISE (Gr. lrap6BEwos)

paradise of Narragcnia—See also:

• BRANT, JOSEPH (1742-1807)
• BRANT, SEBASTIAN (1457-1521)

Brant here lashes with unsparing vigour the weaknesses and vices of his time . Although, like most of the German humanists, essentially conservative in his religious views, Brant's eyes were open to the abuses in the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, and the Narrenschiff was a most effective preparation for the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation . See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander See also:

• BARCLAY, ALEXANDER (c. 1476-1552)
• BARCLAY, JOHN (1582-1621)
• BARCLAY, JOHN (1734-1798)
• BARCLAY, R
• BARCLAY, ROBERT (1648-1690)
• BARCLAY, WILLIAM (1546–1608)

Barclay's Ship of Fools (1509) is a See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of the German poem, and a Latin version by Jacobus Locher (1497) was hardly less popular than the German See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . There is also a large quantity of other " See also:

• FOOL (O. Fr. fol, modern fou, foolish, from a Late Latin use of follis, bellows, a ball filled with air, for a stupid person, a jester, a wind-bag)

fool literature." See also:

• NIGEL (d. 1168)

Nigel, called Wireker (fl . 119o), a See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ Church Priory, See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, wrote a satirical See also:

• SPECULUM

Speculum stultorum, in which the ambitious and discontented monk figured as the See also:

• ASS (O.E. assa; Lat. asinus)
• ASS, FEAST OF THE

ass Brunellus, who wanted a longer tail . Brunellus, who has been educated at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, decides to found an See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of fools, which shall combine the See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good points of all the existing monastic orders . See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

Cock See also:

• LOVELL, FRANCIS LOVELL, VISCOUNT (1454-1487)

Lovell's Bete (printed by Wynkyn de Worde, c . 1510) is another imitation of the Narrenschiff .

Cock Lovell is a fraudulent currier who gathers See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round him a rascally collection of tradesmen . They See also:

• SAIL

sail off in a riotous See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion up See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill and down See also:

• DALE, ROBERT WILLIAM (1829-1895)
• DALE, SIR THOMAS (d. 1619)

dale throughout See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . Brant's other works, of which the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief was a version of See also:

• FREIDANK (VRIDANC)

Freidank's Bescheidenheii (15o8), are of inferior See also:

• INTEREST

interest and importance . Brant's Narrenschiff has been edited by F . See also:

• ZARNCKE, FRIEDRICH KARL THEODOR (1825–1891)

Zarncke (1854); by K . Goedeke (1872); and by F . Bobertag (Ki.irschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. xvi., 1889) . A See also:

• MODERN

modern German See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation was published by K . See also:

• SIMROCK, KARL JOSEPH (1802-1876)

Simrock in 1872 . On the influence of Brant in England see especially C . H . See also:

• HERFORD

Herford, The See also:

• LITERARY

Literary Relations of England and Germany in the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century (1886) .