Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle

In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited its recipients to think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways.

Sebastian Coxon is Lecturer in German at University College London.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Note on the Text	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: Laughter and Narrative	p. 1
Laughter
Laughing at Comic Tales	p. 34
Laughter in Comic Tales	p. 58
Narrative Design
Time and Space	p. 84
Speech and Dialogue	p. 108
Thematic Content
The physical Body	p. 132
The Social Body	p. 155
Conclusion: Comic Tales in the Later Middle Ages	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 211
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Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales C.1350-1525

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