IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1320: 'It's either funny or it's not', II: The Boundaries of Humour and Laughter in the Middle Ages
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Trivent Publishing |
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| Organiser: | Kleio Pethainou, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh |
| Moderator/Chair: | Peter J. A. Jones, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia |
| Paper 1320-a | Humour on the Borders of Texts and Images: The Case of the Rutland Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1320-b | Disciplinary Laughter and Royal Patronage: A Case Study from the Court of Henry III of England (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History |
| Paper 1320-c | An Illuminated Book of Comedies for the Duke of Berry (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session explores humour in the Middle Ages, and the ways it was expressed in literature, art, and thought. Simultaneously transgressive and socially specific, humour challenges and defines boundaries at the same time. It can be a relief mechanism and an instrument of control and propaganda, and it can contribute to the ways societies and individuals define themselves. This session explores humour and laughter in the patronage of the Court of Henry III of England, the comic borders of the Rutland Psalter, and the first change in the iconography of the Comedies of Terence since the Carolingian period. |