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Laughter, Satire and Medieval Parody

What made medieval people laugh? To find out, Lucie Laumonier talks with Bryant White, a PhD student in French studies at Vanderbilt University. Bryant’s research focuses on medieval satire and parody where he analyses representations of the clergy.

You can learn more about Bryant White’s research from his university webpage or on Academia.edu.

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Bryant has three book recommendations:

Bakhtin, Mikhail. Rabelais and His World (Indiana University Press, 1984)

Arden, Heather. Fools’ Plays: A Study of Satire in the Sottie (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

Bayless, Martha. Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition (University of Michigan Press, 1996)

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See also: Medieval Jokes

The Medieval Grad Podcast is a new podcast here at Medievalists.net. Look for two episodes to be released each month – if you are part of our Patreon you can listen to these episodes early!

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Lucie Laumonier is an affiliate assistant professor at Concordia University. Click here to view her Academia.edu page or follow her on Instagram at The French Medievalist. She is also a columnist on Medievalists.net, writing about agriculture and rural life in the Middle Ages.

If you are interested in being a guest of the podcast, you can email Lucie at [email protected].

The music in this podcast is La douce jouvencelle

Top Image: Laughing Boy, marble by Desiderio da Settignano. Florence, circa 1460. Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Photo by Vassil / Wikimedia Commons

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