Book of Donmon Teith

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historica

This Handbook provides new perspectives on humour from transdisciplinary perspectives. It focuses on humour as a resource from different socio-cultural and psyc

Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research.

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour. It challenges much that has been taken for granted in a field of study for which h

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I