Medievalbookshop — AHD0070 Alfie, Comedy and Culture

Bargain books on the Middle Ages and all related subjects

See also | Poetry | Medieval humour | Italy |
Secondhand book for sale
Scanned image of the book’s front cover

Fabian Alfie.
Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angioleri’s Poetry and Late Medieval Society.
Published Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2001.
Series: Italian Perspectives, no. 8.
ISBN 1902653432.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK.
Size: 169x244x11mm.
Page count: vi,216pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies are not shrink-wrapped, so show a little storage wear, the usual mild scuffs on the covers etc.

This item £10.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £34.00/$56.00]
Weight without packaging 509g.

How to order this book

Comedy and Culture examines the ways on which the culture and society of the Middle Ages impacted on the works of the Sienese poet, Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312). It analyses how Angiolieri’s poetry conformed to medieval notions and practices of comicality. The study explores the means by which Cecco satirized important cultural movements of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, such as love literature and the ascendant Franciscan order. In addition, it looks at his relations with other writers of the day, including his three insulting sonnets addressed to Dante Alighieri. Comedy and Culture demonstrates that Angiolieri was not an isolated, ‘bizarre’ figure, as some early twentieth-century scholars have described him, but rather an author in step with his times.
[BML/UB]
[PCL3]
Bookmark and Share
(please note: this page and image will be deleted when the book is sold)

See the “book descriptions” page for explanations of the criteria used in this listing.

Back to previous page

Return to the used books welcome page

Use these scrollbars to navigate the attic…

You need javascript switched on for these scrollbars to work. If you can't see see them, there's a full set of links below.

Primary sources | anthologies | anononymous | facsimile | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Secondary sources | journals & partworks | author unknown | exhibition guides & ephemera | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | Mc | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Browse by subject | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Reference books | Reference index | general reference | bibliographies | biographical dictionaries | catalogues: auctions | catalogues: exhibitions | catalogues: museums & collections | chronology & dating | genealogy & heraldry | guides & gazetteers | lexical: concordances, dictionaries, glossaries | maps & atlases | medievalism | name & place-name studies | pass notes & study guides | numismatics

Medievalism | main page | general non-fiction | reference books | biography & autobiography | travelogues | arcana | folklore | arts and crafts | kid's books | fiction | poetry | drama | humour

Other stuff | browse by publisher | browse by series | browse by language | gift books | kids' stuff | incomplete sets | shop returns | signed copies | unused bargains | useful non-medieval | new books (with Amazon links)