The set up -- Introduction : Laughing at, with and in the Middle Ages -- The Cervantean paradigm : comedy, madness and meta-medievalism in Don Quixote -- Oldies but goodies : comic recovery -- Scraping the rust from the joking bard : Chaucer in the age of wit -- Medievalist farce as anti-totalitarian weapon : Dario Fo as modern Giullare -- Hit and myth : performing and parodying medievalism -- Pre-modern camp and faerie legshows : travestying the Middle Ages on the nineteenth-century stage -- Up the Middle Ages : performing tradition in comic medievalist cinema -- That's edutainment : comedy and history -- The past is a difficult and fairly disgusting country : the Middle Ages in recent British jocumentary -- Smelling the past : medieval heritage tourism and the phenomenology of ironic nostalgia -- Afterword : Laughing into the future.
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