Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages.
This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the
themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic
morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of
many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis
includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer,
Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as
lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult,
nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and
obscene pilgrim badges. The analysis touches on most of the
literatures of medieval Europe, including a discussion of the
formal attitudes toward humor in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic
traditions. The volume demonstrates the many ways in which medieval
humor could be playful, casual, sophisticated, important,
subversive, and even dangerous. Each chapter takes a different
theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body,
politics and power, laughter, and ethics.
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