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August 4, 2014

postmedieval 5.2: Comic Medievalisms

Special Issue Edited by Louise D’Arcens10295333_696208457083372_508382200230097689_o

ISSUE EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Medievalist laughter
Louise D’Arcens

ARTICLES

Said in jest: Who’s laughing at the Middle Ages (and when)?
David Matthews

You had to be there: Anachronism and the limits of laughing at the Middle Ages
Louise D’Arcens

Medieval comic relief: Cannibal cow, duck’s neck and carry on Joan of Arc
Stephen Knight

‘Simply to amuse the reader’: The humor of Walter Scott’s Reformation
Andrew Lynch

One does not simply laugh in Middle Earth: Sacrificing humor in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings
Brantley L Bryant

Valhallolz: Medievalist humor on the Internet
Kim Wilkins

ARTICLES

Ella’s bloody eagle: Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Saxon history
Donna Beth Ellard

Towards the Middle Ages to come: The temporalities of walking with W. Morris, H. Adams and especially H.D. Thoreau
Benjamin A Saltzman

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

Comedy in translation: Politics and poetics
Nicole Sidhu

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