Title: Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences /
Authors: Classen, Albrecht.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Laughter in literature.; Humor in literature.; Laughter History.; Wit and humor History.; Laughter Philosophy.; Laughter Religious aspects; Wit and humor, Medieval.; Wit and humor History and criticism
Contents: 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 Classen -- Laughter 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: the 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 --