Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Foreword ix
5. To the Reader xv
6. A Note on Translations and Abbreviations xvii
7. Introduction xix
8. 1. Laughter is the Property of Man 1
9. 2. Laughter in an Evil World 6
10. 3. Christian Humanists 9
11. 4. Jewish and Gentile 'Schoolmasters' 15
12. 5. The Mocking of the Crucified King 17
13. 6. The Old Testament Gospel 19
14. 7. Words and their Meanings 24
15. 8. The Mocking of Christ in the Old Testament 28
16. 9. Unholy Railing 33
17. 10. Good Holy Railing 37
18. 11. Diasyrm 40
19. 12. A God who Laughs to Scorn 42
20. 13. Erasmus on Diasyrm 44
21. 14. The Laughter of Jesus and the Laughter of the Father in the New Testament 47
22. 15. More Irony from Jesus 54
23. 16. Pitiless Laughter at Ugliness 56
24. 17. Ignorance or Madness? The Importance of a Gamma More Socratic Laughter in the Philebus 61
25. 18. Madman Laughs at Madman 68
26. 19. Laughing at Christ and Laughing at Carabba 78
27. 20. Laughing Back 80
28. 21. Christ as Divine Madman 84
29. 22. Madness Providentially Feigned by David: a Silenus 90
30. 23. Theophylact and a Lunatic's Chains 93
31. 24. Laughing with the Great Cardinal of Saint-Cher 96
32. 25. Jesus in Ecstatic Madness 98
33. 26. Lessons in Exegesis 102
34. 27. Plato and Christian Madness 107
35. 28. Drunk with God and Drunk with Wine 111
36. 29. Christ's Mad Disciples: Erotic Madness 116
37. 30. The Philosophy of Christ 122
38. 31. The Foolishness of God 124
39. 32. Socrates 127
40. 33. Christian Laughter all but Nipped in the Bud: Eutrapely Condemned 132
41. 34. The Gospel according to Lucian: Christianity is once again Stupid and Mad 141
42. 35. Lucian in the Pulpit 151
43. 36. A Taste of Lucianic Laughter in the Colloquies 154
44. 37. Laughter in the Annotations 161
45. 38. He who Calleth his Brother a Fool 176
46. 39. Fools in Cap-and-Bells? 186
47. 40. Caps and Bells Sneak In 194
48. 41. Obscure Men 205
49. 42. Dutch Wit, Gallic Licence and the Liturgical Year 211
50. 43. Christian Wit and Christian Comedy: 'The Great Jester of France' 220
51. 44. Christian Laughter at Shrove tide 226
52. 45. Seeking for Signs 233
53. 46. Christian Laughter for Faithful Folk 240
54. 47. Laughter at the Philosophy of Christ 255
55. 48. God's Coadjutors: Deed and Words and Christian Laughter 262
56. 49. Laughing at Idolatry 278
57. 50. Laughter and Christian Mythology 286
58. 51. Gluttony 289
59. 52. Realist Laughter: Laughter and Eternity 293
60. 53. Charity and Joy 306
61. Index 315