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The Cantigas d'Escarnho e de Mal Dizer is a collection of songs composed by various authors written in Iberia in the 13th and 14th centuries. The songs are full of humour, witticisms, insults and jokes that poke fun at, and conceal more serious attacks on, areas such as medical malpractice, prostitution, pilgrimage and augury and diviniation. `Behind the curtain of wit and humour lurks a scene of painful animosities, anxieties, conflict and contentiousness that must be covered over in language to avoid coming to blows or being driven to tears.' Benjamin Liu examines how these jokes worked, their multiple meanings and what types of verbal strategies were used by the authors of the
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