Article: La Derision au Moyen Age: De la pratique sociale au rituel politique.(Shorter Notices--French)(Book review)

La Derision au Moyen Age: De la pratique sociale au rituel politique, ed. Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and Jacques Verger, Cultures et civilisations medievales (Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2007), 292 pp.; 13 colour plates. ISBN 978-2-84050-449-8. 28.00 [euro]. This collection presents sixteen essays in French stemming from a Sorbonne colloquium of late 2003. While a few appear close to what one would assume to be their original oral form (Maire Vigueur, Menard), others have been significantly expanded and fully referenced. While the editors' tripartite organization of the contributions seeks to impose a sense of typology and system in the various treatments ...

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