Living memory and the long dead: the ethics of laughing at the Middle Ages

Authors

Louise D'Arcens, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

91273

Publication Details

D'Arcens, L. (2014). Living memory and the long dead: the ethics of laughing at the Middle Ages. Studies in Medievalism XXIII: Ethics and Medievalism, XXIII 11-18.

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Studies in Medievalism

Abstract

Is there an ethics particular to laughing at the Middle Ages? What are the stakes of making the medieval past an object of postmedieval humour, and can the long dead of the Middle Ages laugh back at modernity?