Behaving like fools
Subtitle: voice, gesture, and laughter in texts, manuscripts, and early books
By: edited by Lucy Perry and Alexander Schwarz
Contributors: International Medieval Congress
Series: International medieval research -- 17
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9782503531571
Subjects: History and criticism; Fools and jesters in literature; Medieval Literature
Notes: Text is a collection of essays, some of which were presented at various sessions of the various annual International Medieval Congresses at the University of Leeds; other essays in this work were especially commissioned for this book's publication.  All papers are peer reviewed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Alexander Schwarz and Lucy Perry; title: Traditions of simulated folly in The Canterbury interlude and tale of Beryn  -- Guillemette Bolens; title: A fool and a troubadour : folly in the legend of Peire Vidal  -- Susanna Niiranen; title: An Anglo-Norman fool in Constantinople : Der Pfaffe Amis  -- Cordula Böcking-Politis; title: Sebastian Brant's Ship of fools and its woodcuts  -- Siegrid Schmidt; title: Eulenspiegel meets Nasreddin : a fools' contest  -- Alexander Schwarz; title: After the laughter : discipline through narration : the fool's didactics in Wolfgang Büttner's jocular prose tales (Schwänke) featuring Claus Narr (1572)  -- Peter Glasner; title: Playing the fool : eccentric behaviour and political acumen in Wace's Roman de Rou  -- Françoise Le Saux; title: "Marcel far to helle : tel heom þer spelles" (Brut, Line 13245) : "off" jokes and crude behaviour in Lawman's Brut  -- Rosamund Allen; title: A small history of laughter, or when laughter has to be reasonable  -- Stefan Biessenecker; title: "Cel neim (...) est fols" : "fool-like" dwarfs and the irony of fictionality in French texts around 1200  -- Tanja-Isabel Habicht; title: The issue of madness in Tristan romances  -- Patrizia Mazzadi; title: "What kind of fool am I?" : the tragi-comedy of the love potion in the Thomas-Gottfried branch of the Tristan legend  -- Neil Thomas; title: Don't make me laugh! : fooling around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Lucy Perry.