Laughing at, Laughing with the Middle Ages

What's so funny about the Medieval?

In this episode we discuss the relationship comedy has with the medieval, and the difficulties we sometimes have in recognising when we're laughing with and laughing at the medieval. As always, we take pop culture references such as the Big Bang Theory and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which we use as our case example for this week. 

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Here is the link to the Decameron Project mentioned in this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/decameron-project-short-story-collection.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article