Accessing English Humour in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Texts: Sources, Contexts, Intentions, Reception
MEMC and Australasian Humour Studies Network Joint Seminar
Date: 17 September 2014
Time: 4:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Common Room, John Woolley Building (N480 – 4th floor), University of Sydney, Camperdown (main) campus
Programme (to be followed by refreshments):
- April Bertels-Garnsey: Looking at the One-Eyed Garlic Seller: Riddle 86 in Anglo-Saxon England and Beyond.
- Anna Wallace: Classroom Insults and Humour in Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion
- Chenoa Hunter: ‘They lawghed all as they were wylde’: Mockery and Masculinity in The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones
- Sabina Rahman: Humour in the Early Robin Hood Ballad.
Discussants: Em. Prof. Conal Condren, Prof. Daniel Anlezark
All AHSN members and guests are welcome, but please contact for catering purposes and further directions: Dr Jessica Milner Davis, AHSN Co-ordinator jessica.davis@sydney.edu.au
