Kristin L. Burr is an associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John F. Moran is a clinical assistant professor and the Director of Language programs in the Department of French at New York University in New York. Norris J. Lacy is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      Hamming It Up: Porcine Humor in the Old French Fabliaux      KRISTIN L. BURRFabliaux as Fair Exchange: Boivin de Provins and La Bourse pleine de sens      ELIZABETH W.“So This Vilain Walks into a Bar...”: The Fabliau as Stand-up Comedy      JOHN F. MORANCustomary Law in the Old French Fabliau      F.R.P. AKEHURSTRhetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait      ELIZABETH KINNEL’Esquiriel, or What’s in a Tail?      CAROLINE JEWERSTrickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter      NORRIS J. LACY“No, No, Nonete!”: Reciting Jean de Condé’s Virgin-less and Miracle-less Virgin Miracle      ADRIAN P. TUDORRhyme or Reason: Le Prestre comporté and Le Prestre et le chevalier      ANNE COBBYThe Non-Conformist Fabliau Genre and Its Transgressions: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Two Old French Fabliaux      JEAN E. JOSTThe “Fin Humour” of Guillaume au faucon      JOAN TASKER GRIMBERTModern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux      LOGAN E. WHALENEsprit gaulois for the English: The Humor of the Anglo-Norman Fabliau      KEITH BUSBYMarie de France in the Manuscripts: Lai, Fable, Fabliau      RUPERT T. PICKENSAbout the Contributors      Index

“refreshing...highlight[s] the lessons learned through fabliau humor”—Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.

Kristin L. Burr is an associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John F. Moran is a clinical assistant professor and the Director of Language programs in the Department of French at New York University in New York. Norris J. Lacy is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      Hamming It Up: Porcine Humor in the Old French Fabliaux      KRISTIN L. BURRFabliaux as Fair Exchange: Boivin de Provins and La Bourse pleine de sens      ELIZABETH W.“So This Vilain Walks into a Bar...”: The Fabliau as Stand-up Comedy      JOHN F. MORANCustomary Law in the Old French Fabliau      F.R.P. AKEHURSTRhetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait      ELIZABETH KINNEL’Esquiriel, or What’s in a Tail?      CAROLINE JEWERSTrickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter      NORRIS J. LACY“No, No, Nonete!”: Reciting Jean de Condé’s Virgin-less and Miracle-less Virgin Miracle      ADRIAN P. TUDORRhyme or Reason: Le Prestre comporté and Le Prestre et le chevalier      ANNE COBBYThe Non-Conformist Fabliau Genre and Its Transgressions: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Two Old French Fabliaux      JEAN E. JOSTThe “Fin Humour” of Guillaume au faucon      JOAN TASKER GRIMBERTModern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux      LOGAN E. WHALENEsprit gaulois for the English: The Humor of the Anglo-Norman Fabliau      KEITH BUSBYMarie de France in the Manuscripts: Lai, Fable, Fabliau      RUPERT T. PICKENSAbout the Contributors      Index

“refreshing...highlight[s] the lessons learned through fabliau humor”—Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.

Kristin L. Burr is an associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John F. Moran is a clinical assistant professor and the Director of Language programs in the Department of French at New York University in New York. Norris J. Lacy is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      Hamming It Up: Porcine Humor in the Old French Fabliaux      KRISTIN L. BURRFabliaux as Fair Exchange: Boivin de Provins and La Bourse pleine de sens      ELIZABETH W.“So This Vilain Walks into a Bar...”: The Fabliau as Stand-up Comedy      JOHN F. MORANCustomary Law in the Old French Fabliau      F.R.P. AKEHURSTRhetorical Reasoning, Authority, and the Impossible Interlocutor in Le Vilain qui conquist paradis par plait      ELIZABETH KINNEL’Esquiriel, or What’s in a Tail?      CAROLINE JEWERSTrickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter      NORRIS J. LACY“No, No, Nonete!”: Reciting Jean de Condé’s Virgin-less and Miracle-less Virgin Miracle      ADRIAN P. TUDORRhyme or Reason: Le Prestre comporté and Le Prestre et le chevalier      ANNE COBBYThe Non-Conformist Fabliau Genre and Its Transgressions: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Two Old French Fabliaux      JEAN E. JOSTThe “Fin Humour” of Guillaume au faucon      JOAN TASKER GRIMBERTModern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux      LOGAN E. WHALENEsprit gaulois for the English: The Humor of the Anglo-Norman Fabliau      KEITH BUSBYMarie de France in the Manuscripts: Lai, Fable, Fabliau      RUPERT T. PICKENSAbout the Contributors      Index

“refreshing...highlight[s] the lessons learned through fabliau humor”—Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.