Medieval Joke Poetry: The Cantigas d'Escarnho E de Mal Dizer

by Benjamin Liu

Medieval Joke Poetry examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer. Written in Galician-Portuguese, these "songs of mockery and insult" make up a heterogeneous corpus whose witticisms are by turns funny and vicious, crudely obscene and exquisitely sophisticated, playful and deadly serious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674016645
• ISBN13: 9780674016644
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Department of Comparative
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"