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Pages: 173
Authors: Kleio Pethainou
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-01 - Publisher: Trivent Publishing

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Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research.
Medieval Mischief
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Janetta Rebold Benton
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Sutton Publishing

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This collection of some of the most delightful examples of medieval visual humour will amuse and entertain anyone with a sense of the ridiculous.
Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Guy Halsall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Although the topic of humor has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humor remains largely neglected. The essays collected here attempt to fill the ga
Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
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Pages: 864
Authors: Albrecht Classen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridi
Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe, 1430-1540
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Christa Grössinger
Categories: Art
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The picture gained from secular and profane prints is one of humanity abandoning itself to the sins of the flesh and, therefore, folly; real life exists in deta