Bawdy Tales in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Fabliaux

Lecturer

Carol Jamison, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow

Corporate Author/Producer

Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus

Media Type

Video

Date of Lecture

4-27-1995

Description of Lecture

Until recently, most scholars refused to study the medieval fabliaux, assuming that the bawdy nature of the tales made them unfit for consideration. However, recent scholarship shows that the fabliaux are important keys to the understanding of the changing social structure in the Middle Ages. Even the titles of these stories, known for their brevity and humor, reveal their concern with upheaval of traditional social norms: “The Stupid Knight”, “The Knight with the Long Ass”, and “The Castrated Lady”, for example. This presentation will introduce these tales and others and will demonstration the function of bawdry in the genre. Carol Jamison Department of Languages, Literature and Dramatic Arts

Recommended Citation

Jamison, Carol, "Bawdy Tales in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Fabliaux" (1995). Robert Ingram Strozier Faculty Lecture Series. 62.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/rs-fls/62

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Physical Format

VHS

Language

English