Medieval Humour

Kleio Pethainou is an Art Historian by formation and a Medievalist by specialisation. The early stages of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh were funded by the Edinburgh College of Art Research Scholarship and she is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. When she is not doing research, she is working at the National Galleries of Scotland, and she frequently brings to life characters from the manuscripts she is researching in her storytelling performances.

• Introduction Chapter 1 — Fun and Games in the Gospels: Medieval Emojis and Humour in The Book of Kells — Donncha MacGabhannChapter 2 — Bernard of Clairvaux, Killjoy? Humourlessness in Medieval Monasteries — Peter JonesChapter 3 — Medieval Nonsense Humour in Scribal Additions — Lucie DoležalováChapter 4 — Carnivalesque Magic in Late-Medieval English and Scottish Comic Tales: "I have dauncid in the devillis name" — Mark TruesdaleChapter 5 — A Fresh Perspective on the Humour in "Jaufre": Oral Delivery, and Audience Responses — Margaret Anne PurbrickChapter 6 — Visual Humour in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles — Kleio Pethainou