Proceedings of the Pseudo Society : first series, 1986-93 / edited by Richard R. Ring and Richard Kay.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Ring, Richard Raymond, 1942-

Kay, Richard, 1931-

Conference Name:

International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Humor.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

Contents:

De majoribus nostris Juti (May 1976) / Richard Kay

Jutish studies: introductory remarks / Dennis W. Cashman

Saint Wythelas, mother of the Jutes / Jo Ann McNamara

The Jutes and the Bayeux Tapestry / R. Dean Ware

What happened to the Jutes: a possible sexual explanation / Vern L. Bullough

Primae noctis inventiones (May 1986)

Inventing the past: the methodology of pseudo history / James A. Brundage

The account books of Saint Francis of Assisi / John F. McGovern

A newly discovered medieval redaction of a previously lost manuscript of Soranus which amplifies the abbreviated translation of Caelius Aurelianus / Vern L. Bullough

Medieval technology and the chastity belt / James D. Ryan

The end of the Bayeux Tapestry / R. Dean Ware

Leonardo's latest invention / Richard Kay

Inventiones apud AHA (December 1989)

Inventing our motto: introductory remarks at the AHA / R. Dean Ware

The engendering of the Franks: the methodology of urkonstruktionismus / Jo Ann McNamara

The name game / Thomas F.X. Noble

The badman of Bossy-sur-Inept: memoirs of a medieval peasant / Richard Kay

The Pseudo Society at the AHA: comments / James A. Brundage

Aliae inventiones praeclariores (1987-93)

Peccata papae: the secret diaries of Pope Innocent III (1987) / James A. Brundage

"Or/ordure": from gold to garbage, or deconstructing the Anglo-Norman romance topas et pleindamour (1987) / William Calin

Isidore of Seville's saintly interventions in medieval combat: the De interventibus bellicis calamitosis (1987) / James F. Powers

Joinville's secret history (1988)

Charles T. Wood

Boethius on King Arthur: a newly discovered text (1988) / Maureen Fries

Libri pontificales extravagantes (1989) / Thomas F.X. Noble

The San Gimignano dossal and a note on a new discovery about the Pesica dossal (1989) / William Cook

Newly discovered danteana from the Biblioteca Bengodiana (1989) / Christopher Kleinhenz

Artorius Rex Britanniae from a contemporary witness (1991) / Richard C. Hoffmann

The lost letters of Charlemagne's first wife, Autostrada, also called Desiderata or Desideria (1991) / Richard R. Ring

On the discovery of a lost manuscript of Chrétien de Troyes: toward an appreciation of its vast importance for the study of medieval literature and culture (1992) / Evelyn Birge Vitz

Sue Doe's society: a recent archival discovery (1993) / Janetta Rebold Benton.

Notes:

Parodies of academic arguments presented to the "Pseudo Society," an audience devoted to fun at the annual meeting of The International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1580440487

OCLC:

51553078