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Medieval songs reflect humor in amorous courtships, Stanford scholar finds
- Phithagoras 10y agoSourcebook here http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp
- cpr 10y agoNews flash: medieval people could be humorous. Man, makes you realize just how negatively the so-called enlightenment era (self-named as an implicit critique of previous eras) slandered the so-called dark ages, even in naming.
- angersock 10y agoEvery generation thinks that it has invented sex. This has been true as long as there have been generations.
- kbenson 10y agoHmm, I wish the article actually explained the humor in amorous courtships. It explains instances of humor, with examples, and very lightly covers courtship, but in no way explains how they combine. I'm not even sure the title is accurate, going by the article.
- riffraff 10y agoGiven the ton of existing humorous medieval literature which is filled with sexual innuendos and so on, the title seems really dumb. But the article is actually about publishing a collection of humorous love songs. The author should have used something like "Stanford scholar collects medieval songs which reflect humor in amorous courtship", I'm pretty sure we didn't just find out now.
- solipsism 10y ago"Stanford scholar translates humorous medieval love songs to English" seems to be the real story.