Medieval Humour
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Medieval Humour
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Author : Kleio Pethainou
language : en
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Release Date : 2023-03-01
Medieval Humour written by Kleio Pethainou and has been published by Trivent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-01 with Art categories.
Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores different artistic expressions, receptions and functions of humour and identifies a series of problems in researching humour historically. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions dissects humour in art and thought, literature and drama, society and culture, contributing to a deeper understanding of our cultural past.
A Cultural History Of Comedy In The Middle Ages
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Author : Martha Bayless
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-30
A Cultural History Of Comedy In The Middle Ages written by Martha Bayless and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with History categories.
Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges. The analysis touches on most of the literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. The volume demonstrates the many ways in which medieval humor could be playful, casual, sophisticated, important, subversive, and even dangerous. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics.
Humour History And Politics In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Guy Halsall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-13
Humour History And Politics In Late Antiquity And The Early Middle Ages written by Guy Halsall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-13 with History categories.
Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. Two chapters serve as an extended introduction to the topic, while the following six chapters offer varied treatments of humour and politics, looking at different times and places, but at the Carolingian world in particular. Together, they raise important and original issues about how humour was employed to articulate concepts of political power, perceptions of kingship, social relations and the role of particular texts.
Comic Medievalism
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Author : Louise D'Arcens
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2014
Comic Medievalism written by Louise D'Arcens and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about the medieval but also about modernity. Tracing the development and permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody, irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong.
Humour In Old English Literature
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Author : Jonathan Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2023-10-02
Humour In Old English Literature written by Jonathan Wilcox and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom literature, runic writing, the deployment of rhymes, and humour in heroic poetry, hagiography, and romance. Drawing on a fine-tuned understanding of literary technique, the book presents a revisionist view of Old English literature, partly by reclaiming often-neglected texts and partly by uncovering ironies and embarrassments within well-established works, including Beowulf. Most surprisingly, Jonathan Wilcox engages the large body of didactic literature, pinpointing humour in two anonymous homilies along with extensive use in saints’ lives. Each chapter ends by revealing a different audience that would have shared in the laughter. Wilcox suggests that the humour of Old English literature has been scantily covered in past scholarship because modern readers expect a dour and serious corpus. Humour in Old English Literature aims to break that cycle by highlighting works and moments that are as entertaining now as they were then.
Medieval Mischief
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Author : Janetta Rebold Benton
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Medieval Mischief written by Janetta Rebold Benton and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
This collection of some of the most delightful examples of medieval visual humour will amuse and entertain anyone with a sense of the ridiculous.
I Sermoni Di Abelardo Per Le Monache Del Paracleto
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Author : Herman Braet
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2003
I Sermoni Di Abelardo Per Le Monache Del Paracleto written by Herman Braet and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
This volume addresses the multiple aspects of medieval laughter, its possible devices, functions and intentions.
Medieval Comic Tales
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Author : Derek Brewer
language : en
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Release Date : 2008
Medieval Comic Tales written by Derek Brewer and has been published by D. S. Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
Medieval humour revealed in an anthology of 80 tales from England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
Women Laughter In Medieval Comic Literature
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Author : Lisa Renée Perfetti
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2003
Women Laughter In Medieval Comic Literature written by Lisa Renée Perfetti and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Comedy categories.
Portrays a range of medieval heroines to ascertain how humor might have been used and enjoyed by medieval women
Laughter And Power In The Twelfth Century
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Author : Peter J. A. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Laughter And Power In The Twelfth Century written by Peter J. A. Jones and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with History categories.
Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s. With an expansive survey of theological and literary texts, bringing a range of unedited manuscript material to light in the process, Peter J. A. Jones exposes how twelfth-century writers came to connect laughter with spiritual transcendence and justice, and how this connection gave humour a unique political and spiritual power in both text and action. Ultimately, Jones argues that England's popular images of laughing kings and saints effectively reinstated a sublime charismatic authority, something truly rebellious at a moment in history when bureaucracy and codification were first coming to dominate European political life.