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Behaving like fools

voice, gesture, and laughter in texts, manuscripts, and early books

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Table of Contents

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

Edition 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.

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Turnhout
Series
International medieval research -- 17

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Library of Congress
PN56.5.F64 B44 2010, PN682, PN56.5.F64 B45 2010

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xii, 301 p. :
Number of pages
301

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OL25222837M
ISBN 10
2503531571
ISBN 13
9782503531571
LCCN
2011536032
OCLC/WorldCat
752794645

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