Laughter And Power In The Twelfth Century by Prudence J. Jones
This study examines how laughter operated in twelfth-century Europe as a social and political force, showing how ridicule, satire, parody, and festival humor were used both to enforce authority and to contest it. By reading sermons, legal and liturgical parodies, popular verse, and accounts of public festivities alongside moral and theological condemnations of mirth, the work traces ambivalent attitudes toward laughter and demonstrates how mockery, irony, and comic inversion negotiated hierarchies of class, gender, and ecclesiastical power, revealing humor as an active mechanism of social control, resistance, and cultural change rather than a mere diversion.
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