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1. 1. Rire Au Moyen âge

   

   A scholarly exploration of how laughter functioned across medieval society, tracing the forms, sites and meanings of the comic from courtly satire and popular fabliaux to carnival, manuscript marginalia and visual grotesques; the book examines theological and legal attitudes that sought to regulate or condemn laughter, while showing how jokes, fools, scatology and mockery could also subvert hierarchies, negotiate social tensions and create communal bonds; combining literary and iconographic evidence with social and cultural history, it argues that laughter in the Middle Ages was a complex, ambivalent force—simultaneously constructive and transgressive—whose echoes shaped later European attitudes toward the comic.