Portrays a range of medieval heroines to ascertain how humor might have been used and enjoyed by medieval women

Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridi

They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jack

The study examines textual representations of women's laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and co

This collection explores how Old French fabliaux disrupt literal and figurative bodies. Essays cover theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplicati