Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times: epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences

Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age', many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, enternained and rediculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be...

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Contributors: Classen, Albrecht 1956- (Other)
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Published: Berlin [u.a.] De Gruyter 2010
In: Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture (5)
Year: 2010
Series/Journal:Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture 5
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Laughter (Motif) / Humor (Motif) / Literature / History 550-1800
B Laughter / Humor / History 550-1800
Further subjects:B Laughter in literature
B Wit and humor History and criticism
B Laughter History
B Wit and humor History
B Laughter Philosophy
B Laughter Religious aspects
B Humor in literature
B Wit and humor, Medieval
B Conference program 2009 (Tucson, Ariz)
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505 8 0 |a Frontmatter ; Table of Contents; Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction; Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars; Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology; Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation; Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct DiscourseChapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône; Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria; Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus; Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni BoccaccioChapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives; Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland; Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales; Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde; Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux; Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of LaughterChapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play; Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations; Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs; Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the SottieChapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592); Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art ; Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor; Chapter 26. 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 (1675-170 
505 8 0 |a Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit 
505 8 0 |t 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  |r Albrecht ClassenLaughter in Procopius's Wars / Judith Hagen 
505 8 0 |t "Does God really laugh?": appropriate and inappropriate descriptions of God in Islamic traditionalist theology  |r Livnat Holtzman 
505 8 0 |t Laughter in Beowulf: ambiguity, ambivalence, and group identity formation  |r Daniel F. Pigg 
505 8 0 |t The parodia sacra problem and medieval comic studies  |r Mark Burde 
505 8 0 |t Women's laughter and gender politics in medieval conduct discourse  |r Olga V. Trokhimenko 
505 8 0 |t Pushing decorum: uneasy laughter in Heinrich von Dem Türlîn's Diu crône  |r Madelon Köhler-Busch 
505 8 0 |t Laughter and the comic in a religious text: example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria  |r Connie L. Scarborough 
505 8 0 |t The son rebelled and so the father made man alone: ridicule and boundary maintenance in The Nizzahon vetus  |r John Sewell 
505 8 0 |t Laughing at the beast: the Judensau: anti-Jewish propaganda and humor from the Middle Ages to the early modern period  |r Birgit Wiedl 
505 8 0 |t Yes ... but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi and Giovanni Boccaccio  |r Fabian Alfie 
505 8 0 |t Curses and laughter in medieval Italian comic poetry: the ethics of humor in Rustico Filippi's invectives  |r Nicolino Applauso 
505 8 0 |t Tromdhámh guaire: a context for laughter and audience in early modern Ireland  |r Feargal Ó Béarra 
505 8 0 |t Humorous transgression in the non-conformist fabliaux: a Bakhtinian analysis of three comic tales  |r Jean E. Jost 
505 8 0 |t Chaucerian comedy: Troilus and Criseyde  |r Gretchen Mieszkowski 
505 8 0 |t Laughing and eating in the fabliaux  |r Sarah Gordon 
505 8 0 |t Laughter and medieval stalls  |r Christine Bousquet-Labouérie 
505 8 0 |t Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco-serius. Esoteric humor and the incommensurability of laughter  |r Scott L. Taylor 
505 8 0 |t "So I thought as I stood, to mirth us among": the function of laughter in The second shepherds' play  |r Jean N. Goodrich 
505 8 0 |t Laughing in late-medieval verse (mæren) and prose (Schwänke) narratives: epistemological strategies and hermeneutic explorations  |r Albrecht Classen 
505 8 0 |t The workings of desire: Panurge and the dogs  |r Rosa Alvarez Perez 
505 8 0 |t Laughing out loud in the Heptaméron: a reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's ambivalent humor  |r Elizabeth Chesney Zegura 
505 8 0 |t You had to be there: the elusive humor of the Sottie  |r Lia B. Ross 
505 8 0 |t Sacred parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of wit (1592)  |r Kyle Diroberto 
505 8 0 |t The comedy of the shrew: theorizing humor in early modern Netherlandish art  |r Martha Moffitt Peacock 
505 8 0 |t The comic personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: negotiating masculine identity through self-directed humor  |r Jessica Tvordi 
505 8 0 |t 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)  |r Robert J. Alexander 
505 8 0 |t Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean satire in the Chymische hochzeit  |r Thomas Willard 
505 8 0 |t The comic power of illusion-allusion: laughter, La devineresse, and the scandal of a glorious century  |r Diane Rudall 
505 8 0 |t Laughing at credulity and superstition in the long eighteenth century  |r Allison P. Coudert. 
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