2. Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Courtiers’ Trifles)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Illustrations ix
5. Introduction: Author, Reader, Book, and Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice 3
6. 1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture 20
7. 2. Wit, Laughter, and Authority in Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Courtiers’ Trifles) 38
8. 3. Late Medieval Text Collections: A Codicological Typology Based on Single-Author Manuscripts 56
9. 4. The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context 80
10. 5. ‘The Makere of this Boke’: Chaucer’s Retraction and the Author as Scribe and Compiler 106
11. 6. Reading for Authority: Portraits of Christine de Pizan and Her Readers 154
12. 7. Vernacular Auctoritas in Late Medieval England: Writing after the Constitutions 178
13. 8. Master Henryson and Father Aesop 198
14. 9. Erasmus’s Lucubrationes: Genesis of a Literary Oeuvre 232
15. Bibliography 263
16. Notes on Contributors 289
17. Index 291
18. Index of Manuscripts 303