TY  - GEN
AB  - Towards the end of the 12th century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, 'Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century' traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s.
AU  - Jones, Peter J. A.,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - DA176
ET  - First edition.
ID  - 916739
KW  - Laughter
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843542.001.0001
N2  - Towards the end of the 12th century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, 'Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century' traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s.
SN  - 9780191879364 
T1  - Laughter and power in the twelfth century /
TI  - Laughter and power in the twelfth century /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843542.001.0001
ER  -