Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

by Bowen,Barbara C.

• ISBN13: 9780860789543
• ISBN10: 0860789543
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000948417
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais.The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled 'Serious Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
HUMANIST WIT
I Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1344-1490: a new listing	1	(262)
Renaissance Quarterly 39, no. 1. New York, 1986
II Renaissance collections of facetiae, 1499-1528: a new listing	263
Renaissance Quarterly 39, no. 2. New York, 1986
III Roman jokes and the Renaissance prince, 1455-1528	137	(272)
Illinois Classical Studies 9. Urbana, IL, 1984
IV Ciceronian wit and Renaissance rhetoric	409
Rhetorica 16, no. 4. Berkeley, CA, 1998
V The collection of facezie attributed to Angelo Poliziano	27	(224)
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 56. Geneva, 1994
VI Paolo Cortesi's laughing cardinal	251
Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, ed. Andrew Morrogh et al. Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1985
VII Festive humanism: the case of Luscinius	1	(184)
Explorations in Renaissance Culture 19. Springfield, MO, 1993
RABELAIS
VIII Rire est le propre de l'homme	185
Études Rabelaisiennes 21. Geneva, 1988
IX Rabelais's Panurge as homo rhetoricus	125	(246)
In Laudem Caroli. Renaissance and Reformation Studies for Charles G. Nauert, ed. James V Mehl. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998
X Rabelais et le propos torcheculatif	371
Poétique et Narration (Mélanges Demerson). Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 1993
XI Lenten eels and Carnival sausages	12	(79)
L'Esprit Créateur 21, no. 1. Baton Rouge, LA, 1981
XII Bragueta juris: notes sur Rabelais et le droit	91	(68)
Conteurs et romanciers de la Renaissance. Melanges offerts à Gabriel-André Pérouse, ed. James Dauphiné et Béatrice Périgot. Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 1997
XIII Rabelais and the Library of Saint-Victor	159	(70)
Lapidary Inscriptions. Renaissance Essays for Donald A. Stone, ed. Barbara C. Bowen and Jerry C. Nash (French Forum 16, no. 2). Lincoln, NE: French Forum, Publishers, 1991
XIV Janotus de Bragmardo in the limelight (Gargantua, ch. 19)	229
The French Review 72, no. 2. Bozeman, MT, 1998
XV Rabelais and Folengo once again	133
Rabelais in Context. Proceedings of the 1991 Vanderbilt Conference, ed. Barbara C. Bowen. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, Inc., 1993
FRENCH HUMANIST HUMOUR
XVI 'Honneste' et sens de 1'humour au XVIe siècle	101	(128)
La catégoric de I 'honneste dans la culture du XVIe siècle. Saint-Etienne, 1985
XVII Facétie/sententia/apophtegme: les Divers propos memorables de Gilles Corrozet	229
Narrations Bréves. Mélanges de littérature ancienne offerts à Krystyna Kasprzyk, ed. Piotr Salwa et Ewa Dorota Zolkiewska. Warszawa: Publications de l'Institut de Philologie Romane, Université de Varsovie, 1993
XVIII. Tabourotfacetus: le sieur Gaulard	101	(108)
Tabourot, Seigneur des Accords un Bourguignon poetè de la fin de la Renaissance. Paris: Klincksieck, 1990
XIX 'Lasciuetez' et scatologie: la rhétorique des Escraignes dijonnoises	209
Réforme Humanisme Renaissance 51-52. Lyon, 2000-2001
XX Béroalde de Verville and the self-destructing book	163
Essays in Early French Literature Presented to Barbara M. Craig, ed. Norris J. Lacy and Jerry C. Nash. York, SC: French Literature Publications Company, 1982
XXI 'I1 faut donner dedans': sexe oulet rhétorique dans le Moyen de Parvenir	107
A French Forum. Mélanges de littérature française offerts à Raymond C. et Virginia A. La Charité, ed. Gérard Defaux et Jerry C. Nash. Paris: Klincksieck, 2000
'SERIOUS' HUMANISTS
XXII Geofroy Tory's Champ Fleury and its major sources	13	(236)
Studies in Philology 76, no. 1. Chapel Hill, NC, 1979
XXIII Cornelius Agrippa's De vanitate: polemic or paradox?	249
Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 34. Geneva, 1972
XXIV Jacques Tahureau revisited	19
French Studies 30, no. 1. Durham, 1976
XXV Emblems, elephants, and Alexander	14
(In collaboration with David F. Bright)
Studies in Philology 80, no. 1. Chapel Hill, NC, 1983
Index	1