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Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 1
The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, arch...
Comœdianten und Ordnungsmächte
In welchem Kontext steht das frühe Berufstheater zu den Ordnungsmächten Kirche, Staat und Stadt? Eva-Maria Hansers Untersuchung zeigt die vielschichtigen Abhängigkeiten zu diesen Ordnungsmächten und macht die weitreichende Anpassungsfähigkeit dieses Theaters sichtbar. Als Grundlage dient der Autorin dabei der Kodex Ia 38.589, eine Sammelhandschrift, die aus vierzehn Spieltexten besteht, welche auf Vorlagen unterschiedlichster Provenienz zurückgehen und sich mit der Spielpraxis verschiedener Truppen in Verbindung bringen lassen. Über die Kontextualisierung dieser Theaterform und seiner Spieltexte mit Diskursen, performativen Praktiken und anderen Theaterformen der Frühen Neuzeit gewin...
Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter
While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestant physicians Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger, who studied in Montpellier and practiced in their birth town of Basle, or the Catholic physician Hippolytus Guarinonius, who was born in Trent, trained in Padua and practiced in Hall near Innsbruck. During his student years and brilliant career as early modern Basle's most distinguished municipal, court and academic physician, Felix Platter built up a wide network of private, religious and aristocratic patients. His published medical treatises and private journal record his professional...
