Medieval Comedy: Minstrels
Gone Medieval
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The Battle of Hij Is the Joke
It sounds like it's a lot of slapstick taking the Mickey out of serious things and fairly nonsensical local comedy, which is completely recognisable. My thinking about the material in this manuscript predominantly makes me think about similarities rather than differences in comic culture. And we see comparable strategies for making people laugh or for telling jokes as you've identified. One is turning the world upside down, one is taking the high and bringing them all out - that's an easy way to make a joke. The other thing that we see is taking private things and making them public... by private I generally mean things that happen either in the bedroom or the bathroom.
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