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Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times - Epistemology of a Fundamental Human Behavior, its Meaning, and Consequences (Hardcover)
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Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times - Epistemology of a Fundamental Human Behavior, its Meaning, and Consequences (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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 ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how
important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations
proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity
to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut
of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical
documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship
among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic
phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt,
satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples
protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others
because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult
to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also
existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and
intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter
in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality,
social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power
structures.
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