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Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / edited by Albrecht Classen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 5.
- Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laughter in literature.
- Humor in literature.
- Laughter--History.
- Laughter.
- Wit and humor--History.
- Wit and humor.
- Laughter--Philosophy.
- Laughter--Religious aspects.
- Wit and humor, Medieval.
- Wit and humor--History and criticism.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 853 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2010]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Laughter as an expression of human nature in the Middle Ages and the early modern period: literary, historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological reflections. Also an introduction / Albrecht Classen
- Laughter in Procopius's Wars / Judith Hagen
- "Does God really laugh?": appropriate and inappropriate descriptions of God in Islamic traditionalist theology / Livnat Holtzman
- Laughter in Beowulf: ambiguity, ambivalence, and group identity formation / Daniel F. Pigg
- The parodia sacra problem and medieval comic studies / Mark Burde
- Women's laughter and gender politics in medieval conduct discourse / Olga V. Trokhimenko
- Pushing decorum: uneasy laughter in Heinrich von Dem Türlîn's Diu crône / Madelon Köhler-Busch
- Laughter and the comic in a religious text: example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Connie L. Scarborough
- The son rebelled and so the father made man alone: ridicule and boundary maintenance in The Nizzahon vetus / John Sewell
- Laughing at the beast: the Judensau: anti-Jewish propaganda and humor from the Middle Ages to the early modern period / Birgit Wiedl
- Yes ... but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi and Giovanni Boccaccio / Fabian Alfie
- Curses and laughter in medieval Italian comic poetry: the ethics of humor in Rustico Filippi's invectives / Nicolino Applauso
- Tromdhámh guaire: a context for laughter and audience in early modern Ireland / Feargal Ó Béarra
- Humorous transgression in the non-conformist fabliaux: a Bakhtinian analysis of three comic tales / Jean E. Jost
- Chaucerian comedy: Troilus and Criseyde / Gretchen Mieszkowski
- Laughing and eating in the fabliaux / Sarah Gordon
- Laughter and medieval stalls / Christine Bousquet-Labouérie
- Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco-serius. Esoteric humor and the incommensurability of laughter / Scott L. Taylor
- "So I thought as I stood, to mirth us among": the function of laughter in The second shepherds' play / Jean N. Goodrich
- Laughing in late-medieval verse (mæren) and prose (Schwänke) narratives: epistemological strategies and hermeneutic explorations / Albrecht Classen
- The workings of desire: Panurge and the dogs / Rosa Alvarez Perez
- Laughing out loud in the Heptaméron: a reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's ambivalent humor / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
- You had to be there: the elusive humor of the Sottie / Lia B. Ross
- Sacred parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of wit (1592) / Kyle Diroberto
- The comedy of the shrew: theorizing humor in early modern Netherlandish art / Martha Moffitt Peacock
- The comic personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: negotiating masculine identity through self-directed humor / Jessica Tvordi
- Ridentum dicere verum (using laughter to speak the truth): laughter and the language of the early modern clown "pickelhering" in German literature of the late seventeenth century (1675-1700) / Robert J. Alexander
- Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean satire in the Chymische hochzeit / Thomas Willard
- The comic power of illusion-allusion: laughter, La devineresse, and the scandal of a glorious century / Diane Rudall
- Laughing at credulity and superstition in the long eighteenth century / Allison P. Coudert.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times.
- ISBN:
- 3110245485
- 9783110245486
- Publisher Number:
- 99947086492
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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