Medieval Humour. Expressions, Receptions and Functions
Edited by Kleio Pethainou
Publication date: March, 2023
Pages: 166, colour
History and Art, vol. 6
ISBN 978-615-6405-69-2 Paperback, €42.00
ISBN 978-615-6405-70-8 Hardcover, €74.00
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CHAPTER 1
Fun and Games in the Gospels: Medieval Emojis and Humour in The Book of Kells
Donncha MacGabhann
CHAPTER 2
Bernard of Clairvaux, Killjoy? Humourlessness in Medieval Monasteries
Peter Jones
CHAPTER 3
Medieval Nonsense Humour in Scribal Additions
Lucie Doležalová
CHAPTER 4
Carnivalesque Magic in Late-Medieval English and Scottish Comic Tales: “I have dauncid in the devillis name”
Mark Truesdale
CHAPTER 5
A Fresh Perspective on the Humour in “Jaufre”: Oral Delivery, and Audience Responses
Margaret Anne Purbrick
CHAPTER 6
Visual Humour in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Kleio Pethainou
Data sheet
- Editor(s)
- Kleio Pethainou
- Imprint
- Trivent Medieval
- Book series
- History and Art
- Book series editor(s)
- Gerhard Jaritz and Monica Ann Walker Vadillo
- ISBN (hardcover)
- 978-615-6405-70-8
- ISBN (paperback)
- 978-615-6405-69-2
- eISBN
- 978-615-6405-71-5
- Publication date
- March 2023
- Page numbers
- 166
Specific References
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.
KLEIO PETHAINOU is an Art Historian by formation and a Medievalist by specialisation. The early stages of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh were funded by the Edinburgh College of Art Research Scholarship and she is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. When she is not doing research, she is working at the National Galleries of Scotland, and she frequently brings to life characters from the manuscripts she is researching in her storytelling performances.
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