postmedieval 5.2: Comic Medievalisms
Special Issue Edited by Louise D’Arcens
ISSUE EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Medievalist laughter
Louise D’Arcens
ARTICLES
Said in jest: Who’s laughing at the Middle Ages (and when)?
David Matthews
You had to be there: Anachronism and the limits of laughing at the Middle Ages
Louise D’Arcens
Medieval comic relief: Cannibal cow, duck’s neck and carry on Joan of Arc
Stephen Knight
‘Simply to amuse the reader’: The humor of Walter Scott’s Reformation
Andrew Lynch
One does not simply laugh in Middle Earth: Sacrificing humor in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings
Brantley L Bryant
Valhallolz: Medievalist humor on the Internet
Kim Wilkins
ARTICLES
Ella’s bloody eagle: Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Saxon history
Donna Beth Ellard
Towards the Middle Ages to come: The temporalities of walking with W. Morris, H. Adams and especially H.D. Thoreau
Benjamin A Saltzman
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Comedy in translation: Politics and poetics
Nicole Sidhu
