Behaving like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books
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The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. From representations of irreverent acts to full-blown insanity, fools appeared on the misericords of gothic churches and in the plots of Arthurian narratives, before achieving a wider prominence in literature and iconography in the decades around 1500. But how are we to read these figures appropriately? Is it possible to reconstruct the fascination that fools exerted on the medieval and early modern mind? While modern theories give us the analytical tools to explore this subject, we are faced with the paradox that by striving to understand fools and foolishness we no longer accept their ways but impose rational categories on them. Together these essays propose one way out of this dilemma. Instead of attempting to define the fool or trying to find the common denominator behind his many masks, this volume focuses on the qualities, acts, and gestures that signify foolishness. By investigating different manifestations of foolery rather than the figure of the fool himself, we can begin to understand the proliferation of fools and foolish behaviour in the texts and illustrations of manuscripts and early books. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “Preface”, “List of Abbreviations”), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Alexander Schwarz, Lucy Perry https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5000 Traditions of Simulated Folly in The Canterbury Interlude and Tale of Beryn, p. 15 Guillemette Bolens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5001 A Fool and a Troubadour: Folly in the Legend of Peire Vidal, p. 47 Susanna Niiranen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5002 An Anglo-Norman Fool in Constantinople: Der Pfaffe Amis, p. 65 Cordula Böcking-Politis https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5003 Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools and its Woodcuts, p. 81 Siegrid Schmidt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5004 Eulenspiegel Meets Nasreddin: A Fools’ Contest, p. 109 Alexander Schwarz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5005 After the Laughter: Discipline Through Narration. The Fool’s Didactics in Wolfgang Büttner’s Jocular Prose Tales (Schwänke) Featuring Claus Narr (1572), p. 129 Peter Glasner https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5006 Playing the Fool: Eccentric Behaviour and Political Acumen in Wace’s Roman de Rou, p. 153 Françoise Le Saux https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5007 ‘Marcel far to helle; & tel heom þer spelles’ (Brut, line 13245): ‘Off’ Jokes and Crude Behaviour in Lawman’s Brut, p. 171 Rosamund Allen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5008 A Small History of Laughter, or When Laughter Has to Be Reasonable, p. 193 Stefan Bießenecker https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5009 ‘Cel neim […] est fols’: ‘Fool-like’ Dwarfs and the Irony of Fictionality in French Texts around 1200, p. 223 Tanja-Isabel Habicht https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5010 The Issue of Madness in Tristan Romances, p. 243 Patrizia Mazzadi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5011 ‘What kind of fool am I?’: The Tragi-comedy of the Love Potion in the Thomas/Gottfried Branch of the Tristan Legend, p. 259 Neil Thomas https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5012 Don’t Make Me Laugh! Fooling Around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, p. 277 Lucy Perry https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.5013 Back matter (“Index”, “International Medieval Research”), p. 295
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