Peter J a Jones

Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198843542
• ISBN-10: 0198843542
• Artikelnr.: 57010651

Autorenporträt

Peter J. A. Jones is a researcher at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen in Siberia. Previously he has worked as a teaching fellow in the History Department at University College London, as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, as a visiting scholar at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, and as a Frances A. Yates Postdoctoral Fellow at the Warburg Institute. As well as his work on medieval laughter and humour, Jones is currently developing two new projects. His next book, Democratic Dreams in Medieval Europe, is an investigation of the theological foundations of republican and democratic thought in the 1100s. He is also currently working on a multidisciplinary collaborative project, A History of Loving Things, which traces a history of loving relations between humans and nonhumans from Medieval Europe to the present day, via Imperial Russia and Oscar Wilde's Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Laughter and Power in Medieval Europe
1: The Making of Powerful Laughter, c.1100-1200
2: Powerful Laughter in Twelfth-Century Narrative
3: Laughter and Power at Henry II's Court
4: Thomas Becket, The Laughing Saint
5: Henry II, The Laughing King
Conclusion: Between Laughing Saint and Laughing King
Appendix: Henry's Courtiers
Bibliography