Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century

ISBN: 9780198843542 出版年：2019 页码：224 Jones, Peter J A Oxford University Press

Surveying a vibrant wave of medieval humour, from the laughing prophecies of Merlin to the cutthroat mockery of royal palaces and the outrageous jokes of the law courts, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century exposes the functional, ferocious, and often mystical power of humour in the period between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta.