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Laughter, Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Johan Verberckmoes

    1. History Department, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture (EMH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Historical Laughter

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 1-7

  3. Land of Cockaigne

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 8-37

  4. Laughter Embodied

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 38-58

  5. A Cure for the Civilized

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 59-82

  6. The Politics of Joking

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 83-108

  7. Entremets: Turning Bakhtin upside down

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 109-121

  8. Censoring Lies

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 122-138

  9. Jestbooks in the Spanish Netherlands

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 139-153

  10. Counter Reformation Humour

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 154-180

  11. Postscript: Hispanic Flemish Hotchpotch

    • Johan Verberckmoes
    Pages 181-185

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 186-214
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Prior to the modern age laughter raised passions and activated the body to sweat and shake. Derision was not distinguished from joy. Deceiving the senses by tricks or funny stories made all people laugh loudly, regardless of class. Johan Verberckmoes describes, in this innovating book, the hotchpotch of comic images and stories in 'Flandes' during the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs, from 1500 to 1700. It challenges the Bakhtinian idea of a caesura in the history of laughter around 1600.

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the author skillfully applies insights from other disciplines...yet in most cases does not allow them to overwhelm his immediate subject American Historical Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • History Department, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

    Johan Verberckmoes

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Johan Verberckmoes is Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

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