Medieval Humour

Author : Kleio Pethainou
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786156405715

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Medieval Humour by Kleio Pethainou Pdf

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.

Author : Janetta Rebold Benton
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0750927739

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Medieval Mischief by Janetta Rebold Benton Pdf

This collection of some of the most delightful examples of medieval visual humour will amuse and entertain anyone with a sense of the ridiculous.

Author : Martha Bayless
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350187610

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A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages by Martha Bayless Pdf

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.

Author : Louise D'Arcens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843801

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Comic Medievalism by Louise D'Arcens Pdf

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.

Author : Guy Halsall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139434249

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Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Guy Halsall Pdf

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.

Author : Nicolino Applauso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498567794

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Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy by Nicolino Applauso Pdf

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.

Author : Jonathan Wilcox
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487545703

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Humour in Old English Literature by Jonathan Wilcox Pdf

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.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Nil Korkut
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Englisch
ISBN : 363159271X

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Kinds of Parody from the Medieval to the Postmodern by Nil Korkut Pdf

This book approaches parody as a literary form that has assumed diverse forms and functions throughout history. The author handles this diversity by classifying parody according to its objects of imitation and specifying three major parodic kinds: parody directed at texts and personal styles, parody directed at genre, and parody directed at discourse. The book argues that different literary-historical periods in Britain have witnessed the prevalence of different kinds of parody and investigates the reasons underlying this phenomenon. All periods from the Middle Ages to the present are considered in this regard, but a special significance is given to the postmodern age, where parody has become a widely produced literary form. The book contends further that postmodern parody is primarily discourse parody - a phenomenon which can be explained through the major concerns of postmodernism as a movement. In addition to situating parody and its kinds in a historical context, this book engages in a detailed analysis of parody in the postmodern age, preparing the ground for making an informed assessment of the direction parody and its kinds may take in the near future.

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843842880

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Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature by Larissa Tracy Pdf

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Author : Daniel Derrin,Hannah Burrows
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030566463

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The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology by Daniel Derrin,Hannah Burrows Pdf

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.

Author : Herman Braet,Guido Latré,Werner Verbeke,Instituut voor middeleeuwse studies (Louvain, Belgique)
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9058672050

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I sermoni di Abelardo per le monache del Paracleto by Herman Braet,Guido Latré,Werner Verbeke,Instituut voor middeleeuwse studies (Louvain, Belgique) Pdf

This volume addresses the multiple aspects of medieval laughter, its possible devices, functions and intentions.

Author : Lisa Renée Perfetti
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0472113216

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Women & Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature by Lisa Renée Perfetti Pdf

Portrays a range of medieval heroines to ascertain how humor might have been used and enjoyed by medieval women

Author : Mr Jerry Palmer,Jerry Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134851386

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Taking Humour Seriously by Mr Jerry Palmer,Jerry Palmer Pdf

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Parkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004649439

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French Humour by Parkin Pdf