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Definition of Rabelais

1. Noun. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553).

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Literary usage of Rabelais

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1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"While Luther, however, was born in a peasant's hut at Eisleben, in the shadow of the Gothic towers and the forests of dreamy Germany, Fran£ois Rabelais was ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Rabelais was installed in the cure of Meudon, which he. had had bestowed on him ... Rabelais was one of the first to give flexibility and finish to the yet ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"FRANCOIS Rabelais.^ NOWHERE is evidence of that irony of fate on which Solomon and Sophocles alike insist more abundantly supplied than in the history of ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Rabelais was one of the first to give flexibility and finish to the yet rude and ... 'Rabelais d'apris des Travaux Recents' (in Revue d'Histoire Moderne et ..."

5. The Professionl Training of Secondary Teachers in the United States by George Washington Andrew Luckey (1903)
"Francois Rabelais. Edinb. Rev., 169:111. Johnson, FM What is Reality? ... Note especially the educational views of Rabelais, as expressed in hit " Life of ..."

6. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"This letter classifies Rabelais as a humanistic realist, in sympathy with the best ideas of the scholars of the Italian Renaissance. ..."

7. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Rabelais on the Nature of Education (Rabelais, Francois, Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel, book n, ... This letter classifies Rabelais as a humanistic realist, ..."

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