IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1008: Medieval Humour and its Audiences
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Texas Medieval Association |
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Organiser: | Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
Moderator/Chair: | Sita Steckel, Department of History, Harvard University / Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
Paper 1008-a | Humour as a Political Tool: Warner of Rouen's Moriuht (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Literacy and Orality, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1008-b | Humour and Freedom of Speech in the Time of Henry II: Hugh of Lincoln as vir facetus (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
Paper 1008-c | Humour and Irony in Gerald of Wales's Vita Galfridi (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography |
Abstract | This session will examine three incidences of the uses of medieval humour and its intended and real audiences. The first will examine Warner of Rouen's uses of humour in the political context of early Franco-Scandinavian Normandy; the second deals with political humour in England in the reign of King Henry II.; the third focusses on a hagiographical text from the early 13th century. |