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DISTORTED MOUTH-HORRIBLE smmacwsz THE MAN AND TIIE sma-
PENTS-ALLEGORICAL FIGURES: GLUTTONY AND LUXURY-onmn
REPRESENTATIONS or CLERICAL GLUTTONY AND DRUNKENNESS-
GROTESQUE FIGURES OF INDIV]I)UALS, AND GROTESQUE GROUPS-
ORNAMENTS or THE BORDERS or BOOKS_UNINTENTIONAL emu-
CATURE; THE MOTE AND THE BEAM
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CHAPTER
SATIRICAL LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES_JOH_N DE IIAUTEVILLE
AND ALAN DE LILLE_GOLIAS AND THE GOLIARDS-THE GOLIABDIC
POETRYLTASTE FOR PARODY_PARODIES ON RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS-
POLITICAL CARIOATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGESQTHE JEWS OF NOR-
WICH_CARICATURE REPRESENTATIONS OF OOUNTRIES_LOCAL SA-
TIRE_POLITICAL SONGS AITD POEMS
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CHAPTER
MINSTRELSY A SUBJECT OF BURLESQUE AND CA,RICATU1IE-CHARACTER
OF THE MINSTRELS_TIIEIR JOKES UPON THEMSELVES AND UPON
ONE ANOTHER_VAR1OUS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS REPI{ESEN'l'E1) IN
THE SCULPTURES OF THE MEDIJEVAL A_RTISTS_SIR. 1X1.-XTTIIEVV
GOURNAY AND THE KING OF PORTUGAL_DISCRIEDIT OF THE TABOR.
AND BAGPIPES-MERMAIDS
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XII.
THE COURT FOOL1THE NORMANS AND TBIEIR GA]3S_EARLY HISTORY
OF COURT FOOLS_THEIR COSTUME_CAIL'V]INGS IN THE COIZNISH
CII'URCB1ES_THE IBURLESQUE SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES-"
THE FEASTS OF ASSES, AND OF LICENCE_'l'HE LEADEN
MONEY OF THE FOOLS--THE BISHOP,-5 BLESSING
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XIII.
THE DANCE OF DEATH_THE PAINTEVGS IN THE CHURCH OF LA CIIAISE
DIEU_TIIE REIGN OF FOLLY-SEBASTIAN BRANDT; THE SHIP OF
FO0LS_DISTUR]3ERS OF CHURCH SERVICE--TROUBLESOME BEGGARS
'_GELLER,S SERMONS-BADIUS, AND HIS SHIP OF FOOLISH WOMEN
_THE PLEASURES OF 5MELI1_ERASMUS; THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
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