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9th-century Balkans. Oaths, ruin, and a mother’s grief strong enough to wake the dead.
Also, it's the first ever Court Jester episode on video. Come see.
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🖼️ Vasso Katraki
#storytelling #medievalsky #Halloween2025
9th-century Balkans. Oaths, ruin, and a mother’s grief strong enough to wake the dead.
Also, it's the first ever Court Jester episode on video. Come see.
buff.ly/IJuqec8
🖼️ Vasso Katraki
#storytelling #medievalsky #Halloween2025
It’s brutal and violent. Let’s talk about why medieval audiences laughed with that.
🎧 I give you The Gelded Lady: buff.ly/yJWfMjK
⚠️ Content warning: everything.
#medievalsky
It’s brutal and violent. Let’s talk about why medieval audiences laughed with that.
🎧 I give you The Gelded Lady: buff.ly/yJWfMjK
⚠️ Content warning: everything.
#medievalsky
A wife drags her husband before the bishop. The whole town shows up. Confusion, comedy and awkward anatomy lessons follow.
This is Black Balls: a fabliau about medieval justice at its most bewildered.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/DseO6v9
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A wife drags her husband before the bishop. The whole town shows up. Confusion, comedy and awkward anatomy lessons follow.
This is Black Balls: a fabliau about medieval justice at its most bewildered.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/DseO6v9
#Medievalsky #TheCourtJesterPodcast
📖 @labnf.bsky.social, Fonds francais 854, fol.121v
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📖 @labnf.bsky.social, Fonds francais 854, fol.121v
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By dawn, the prankster’s bed, clothes and dignity are buried under an avalanche of medieval payback.
🎧 New episode - Jouglet
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By dawn, the prankster’s bed, clothes and dignity are buried under an avalanche of medieval payback.
🎧 New episode - Jouglet
buff.ly/APjbRzg
#MedievalHumour #Fabliau #TheCourtJesterPodcast
Have you ever seen a friar and a nun masturbating under a tree while being watched by a weird man?
You have now.
🎧Patreon Bonus: Payment for the Pears.
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Have you ever seen a friar and a nun masturbating under a tree while being watched by a weird man?
You have now.
🎧Patreon Bonus: Payment for the Pears.
buff.ly/ZVHOPey
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🎧 New episode: The Miller of Arleux
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🎧 New episode: The Miller of Arleux
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A penny-pinching husband suspects his wife is having an affair. So he sets a trap.
But she’s got sharper instincts, a better plan, and the entire household on her side.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6tF1...
#Medievalsky #TheCourtJesterPodcast
A penny-pinching husband suspects his wife is having an affair. So he sets a trap.
But she’s got sharper instincts, a better plan, and the entire household on her side.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6tF1...
#Medievalsky #TheCourtJesterPodcast
Please accept my apologies. He regrets nothing.
#cat #storyteller #storytelling #TheCourtJesterPodcast #medievalsky
Please accept my apologies. He regrets nothing.
#cat #storyteller #storytelling #TheCourtJesterPodcast #medievalsky
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📖BnF Fr. 25526, f. 111r.
Some are about power.
This one is about a man who kisses a mysterious knight’s butt and doesn’t realise it’s his wife.
“Bérangier au lonc cul” is all about status anxiety, gender performance and sexual frustration.
youtu.be/nOSUexYEuso?...
#fabliaux #medieval
Some are about power.
This one is about a man who kisses a mysterious knight’s butt and doesn’t realise it’s his wife.
“Bérangier au lonc cul” is all about status anxiety, gender performance and sexual frustration.
youtu.be/nOSUexYEuso?...
#fabliaux #medieval
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He scammed a brothel, sparked a riot and left with a payday.
🎧 New episode: open.spotify.com/show/1Do3IRS...
📖 Scene of a bathhouse, c. 1470. Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Ms. Dep. Breslau 2, vol. 2, fol. 244.
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He scammed a brothel, sparked a riot and left with a payday.
🎧 New episode: open.spotify.com/show/1Do3IRS...
📖 Scene of a bathhouse, c. 1470. Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Ms. Dep. Breslau 2, vol. 2, fol. 244.
#Medievalsky #TheCourtJesterPodcast
Welcome to the world of Nasreddin Hodja. Read all about him on this month's Patreon:.
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#medievalsky #jesterlore
Welcome to the world of Nasreddin Hodja. Read all about him on this month's Patreon:.
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#medievalsky #medievalist #medievalistlife #conferenceseason #medievalhumour #deadseriousjokes #centnouvellesnouvelles
#medievalsky #medievalist #medievalistlife #conferenceseason #medievalhumour #deadseriousjokes #centnouvellesnouvelles
Evangelist John on Patmos, and marginal detail of rooster holding a sceptre in left foot.
Book of Hours. France, Provence, ca. 1440-1450. Morgan Library, MS M.358, fol. 13r.
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Evangelist John on Patmos, and marginal detail of rooster holding a sceptre in left foot.
Book of Hours. France, Provence, ca. 1440-1450. Morgan Library, MS M.358, fol. 13r.
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#KingArthur #Medievalsky #Arthuriana
📖 @britishlibrary.bsky.social , MS Cotton Nero AX2, f 95r
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📖 @britishlibrary.bsky.social , MS Cotton Nero AX2, f 95r
Margaret Anne Purbrick explores the performative energy and humour of Jaufre in "Medieval Humour". Available via Trivent Publishing and JSTOR.
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#Medievalsky #MedievalHumour
Margaret Anne Purbrick explores the performative energy and humour of Jaufre in "Medieval Humour". Available via Trivent Publishing and JSTOR.
buff.ly/h6pA4vW
#Medievalsky #MedievalHumour
Apparently, over 1k of you voluntarily listened to medieval fart jokes and somehow didn’t flee the platform.
I’m stunned, flattered and, frankly, alarmed.
If you're not yet part of the medieval misrule...why?
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#medievalsky #storytelling
Apparently, over 1k of you voluntarily listened to medieval fart jokes and somehow didn’t flee the platform.
I’m stunned, flattered and, frankly, alarmed.
If you're not yet part of the medieval misrule...why?
🟥 Subscribe and Listen: buff.ly/3v8WiWD
#medievalsky #storytelling
Revisiting Lucie Doležalová's contrubution in 'Medieval Humour' and giggling: buff.ly/h6pA4vW 📖 @labnf.bsky.social , MS Latin 9561 fol. 81v.
#medievalsky #manuscripts
Revisiting Lucie Doležalová's contrubution in 'Medieval Humour' and giggling: buff.ly/h6pA4vW 📖 @labnf.bsky.social , MS Latin 9561 fol. 81v.
#medievalsky #manuscripts
The contest is on, the three contestants are ready and a ring is the prize.
Morals are optional.
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📖British Library, Sloane 2435, f. 44v.
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The contest is on, the three contestants are ready and a ring is the prize.
Morals are optional.
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📖British Library, Sloane 2435, f. 44v.
#Thecourtjesterpodcast #medievalsky
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
It’s about the fabliau I couldn’t laugh at, and the moment I stopped mid-script and thought, “I can’t do this.”
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📖 BnF, RES-H-95.
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumanities #Storytelling
It’s about the fabliau I couldn’t laugh at, and the moment I stopped mid-script and thought, “I can’t do this.”
Subscribe to the blog and read it:
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📖 BnF, RES-H-95.
#Medievalsky #DigitalHumanities #Storytelling
That’s a shame. It’s actually hilarious. Let’s fix that.
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#MedievalStudies #MedievalTwitterRefugees #HistHumour
That’s a shame. It’s actually hilarious. Let’s fix that.
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#MedievalStudies #MedievalTwitterRefugees #HistHumour
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📖 Beinecke MS.229, F. 326
#Medievalsky #Humour #Storytelling #DigitalHumanities
Get it by subscribing on the website or Patreon-link in bio.
📖 Beinecke MS.229, F. 326
#Medievalsky #Humour #Storytelling #DigitalHumanities