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 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 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 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 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 Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit 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 ClassenLaughter 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. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
