LEADER 06902nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910455979803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-88515-4 010 $a9786612885150 010 $a3-11-024548-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110245486 035 $a(CKB)2480000000005188 035 $a(EBL)605960 035 $a(OCoLC)676698348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421811 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11283271 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421811 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413316 035 $a(PQKB)10551702 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC605960 035 $a(DE-B1597)39570 035 $a(OCoLC)979632844 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110245486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL605960 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10424395 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL288515 035 $a(EXLCZ)992480000000005188 100 $a20100323d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLaughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times$b[electronic resource] $eepistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences /$fedited by Albrecht Classen 210 $aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (863 p.) 225 1 $aFundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;$v5 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-11-024547-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tLaughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- $tChapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- $tChapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- $tChapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- $tChapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- $tChapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- $tChapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- $tChapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- $tChapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- $tChapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- $tChapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- $tChapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- $tChapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- $tChapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- $tChapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- $tChapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- $tChapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- $tChapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- $tChapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- $tChapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- $tChapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- $tChapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- $tChapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- $tChapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- $tChapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- $tChapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- $tChapter 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 (1675-1700) -- $tChapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- $tChapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- $tChapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- $t Backmatter 330 $aDespite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures. 410 0$aFundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;$v5. 606 $aLaughter in literature 606 $aHumor in literature 606 $aLaughter$xHistory 606 $aWit and humor$xHistory 606 $aLaughter$xPhilosophy 606 $aLaughter$xReligious aspects 606 $aWit and humor, Medieval 606 $aWit and humor$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaughter in literature. 615 0$aHumor in literature. 615 0$aLaughter$xHistory. 615 0$aWit and humor$xHistory. 615 0$aLaughter$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLaughter$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aWit and humor, Medieval. 615 0$aWit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.93354 686 $aGF 6377$2rvk 701 $aClassen$b Albrecht$016691 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455979803321 996 $aLaughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times$92480870 997 $aUNINA