Medieval LOLs Fabliaux

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Fabliaux were short, witty tales originating in northern France between the 12th and 14th centuries, often featuring crafty characters in rustic settings and overwhelmingly concerned with money and sex. In this episode Irina and Mary look at two of these comic verses, both containing surprisingly explicit sexual language, and consider the ways in which they influenced Boccaccio, Chaucer and others. • Listen ad free and to all our Close Readings series in full, including Irina and Mary's 12-part series 'Medieval Beginnings': • Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq • In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsyt • ABOUT CLOSE READINGS • Close Readings is a multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works. Enjoy an introductory grounding like no other from Europe's leading literary journal: fluent, rigorous, irreverent and never boring. • Find more episodes here: • Close Readings • Running in 2024: • ON SATIRE with Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell • HUMAN CONDITIONS with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards • AMONG THE ANCIENTS II with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones • Plus two bonus series: • MEDIEVAL LOLS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley • POLITICAL POEMS with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford • Also included in the Close Readings subscription, the full series of: • AMONG THE ANCIENTS I with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones • MEDIEVAL BEGINNINGS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley • THE LONG AND SHORT with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry • MODERN-ISH POETS: SERIES 1 with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry • ABOUT THE LRB • The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. • As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.

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