In the Middle Ages and Renaissance humor is gradually removed from monarchs and church courts. Thus in this period humor is a culture of ordinary people, which is presented by carnivals, fairs. There are collections of biting jokes, with short lines of people at the eccentric, collected from bars, or other places of gathering crowd.
During the Reformation church, humor was again used as ammunition to support the ideological principles and seeking to make their opponent look bad, but this is done with somewhat controversial theological discussion is that if somehow Jesus during his laughter.
During the Enlightenment (XVII-XVIII) humor was treated at first as an act wrong, unworthy to serious and logical arguments. Laughter is why the French National Assembly was forbidden, then gradually more and more often being used to discredit political opponents.
In Germany during 1819 and the Revolution of 1848 has been a real explosion in the number of cartoons, satire, humorous Chain Stories, with all the censorship measures Carlsbad (1819), critical democratic movement aristocracy and absolutism. The MPs who were elected as representatives of the people has been a rapprochement between folk humor and the upper classes, they are influencing each other.
A pragmatic definition of humor, it would be all that produces laughter is humor, it can be a laugh about others, about him in trouble fun, laughter can have a benevolent character, or caustic, deadly, destructive. Humor can be a literary character, subtle, fine, that may go unnoticed by time or by some humorless, or some knowledge.
