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Title

Proceedings of the Pseudo Society : first series, 1986-93 / edited by Richard R. Ring and Richard Kay.

Publication

Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Ring, Richard Raymond, 1942-
• Kay, Richard.

Description

210 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

Middle Ages > Humor

Note

• Parodies of academic arguments presented to the "Pseudo Society," an audience devoted to fun at the annual meeting of The International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

De majoribus nostris Juti (May 1976) / Richard Kay -- Jutish studies: introductory remarks / Dennis W. Cashman -- Saint Wythelas, mother of the Jutes / Jo Ann McNamara -- The Jutes and the Bayeux Tapestry / R. Dean Ware -- What happened to the Jutes: a possible sexual explanation / Vern L. Bullough -- Primae noctis inventiones (May 1986) -- Inventing the past: the methodology of pseudo history / James A. Brundage -- The account books of Saint Francis of Assisi / John F. McGovern -- A newly discovered medieval redaction of a previously lost manuscript of Soranus which amplifies the abbreviated translation of Caelius Aurelianus / Vern L. Bullough -- Medieval technology and the chastity belt / James D. Ryan -- The end of the Bayeux Tapestry / R. Dean Ware -- Leonardo's latest invention / Richard Kay -- Inventiones apud AHA (December 1989) -- Inventing our motto: introductory remarks at the AHA / R. Dean Ware -- The engendering of the Franks: the methodology of urkonstruktionismus / Jo Ann McNamara -- The name game / Thomas F.X. Noble -- The badman of Bossy-sur-Inept: memoirs of a medieval peasant / Richard Kay -- The Pseudo Society at the AHA: comments / James A. Brundage -- Aliae inventiones praeclariores (1987-93) -- Peccata papae: the secret diaries of Pope Innocent III (1987) / James A. Brundage -- "Or/ordure": from gold to garbage, or deconstructing the Anglo-Norman romance topas et pleindamour (1987) / William Calin -- Isidore of Seville's saintly interventions in medieval combat: the De interventibus bellicis calamitosis (1987) / James F. Powers -- Joinville's secret history (1988) -- Charles T. Wood -- Boethius on King Arthur: a newly discovered text (1988) / Maureen Fries -- Libri pontificales extravagantes (1989) / Thomas F.X. Noble -- The San Gimignano dossal and a note on a new discovery about the Pesica dossal (1989) / William Cook -- Newly discovered danteana from the Biblioteca Bengodiana (1989) / Christopher Kleinhenz -- Artorius Rex Britanniae from a contemporary witness (1991) / Richard C. Hoffmann -- The lost letters of Charlemagne's first wife, Autostrada, also called Desiderata or Desideria (1991) / Richard R. Ring -- On the discovery of a lost manuscript of Chrétien de Troyes: toward an appreciation of its vast importance for the study of medieval literature and culture (1992) / Evelyn Birge Vitz -- Sue Doe's society: a recent archival discovery (1993) / Janetta Rebold Benton.

Call Number

JFE 03-10422

ISBN

1580440487 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003000690

OCLC

51553078

Title

Proceedings of the Pseudo Society : first series, 1986-93 / edited by Richard R. Ring and Richard Kay.

Imprint

Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ring, Richard Raymond, 1942-

Kay, Richard.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-10422