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| List of Illustrations | |
| To the Reader | |
| A Note on the Translations and Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | |
| Laughter is the Property of Man | p. 1 |
| Laughter in an Evil World | p. 6 |
| Christian Humanists | p. 9 |
| Jewish and Gentile 'Schoolmasters' | p. 15 |
| The Mocking of the Crucified King | p. 17 |
| The Old Testament Gospel | p. 19 |
| Words and their Meanings | p. 24 |
| The Mocking of Christ in the Old Testament | p. 28 |
| Unholy Railing | p. 33 |
| Good Holy Railing | p. 37 |
| Diasyrm | p. 40 |
| A God who Laughs to Scorn | p. 42 |
| Erasmus on Diasyrm | p. 44 |
| The Laughter of Jesus and the Laughter of the Father in the New Testament | p. 47 |
| More Irony from Jesus | p. 54 |
| Pitiless Laughter at Ugliness | p. 56 |
| Ignorance or Madness? The Importance of a Gamma | p. 61 |
| Madman Laughs at Madman | p. 68 |
| Laughing at Christ and Laughing at Carabba | p. 78 |
| Laughing Back | p. 80 |
| Christ as Divine Madman | p. 84 |
| Madness Providentially Feigned by David: a Silenus | p. 90 |
| Theophylact and a Lunatic's Chains | p. 93 |
| Laughing with the Great Cardinal of Saint-Cher | p. 96 |
| Jesus in Ecstatic Madness | p. 98 |
| Lessons in Exegesis | p. 102 |
| Plato and Christian Madness | p. 107 |
| Drunk with God and Drunk with Wine | p. 111 |
| Christ's Mad Disciples: Erotic Madness | p. 116 |
| The Philosophy of Christ | p. 122 |
| The Foolishness of God | p. 124 |
| Socrates | p. 127 |
| Christian Laughter all but Nipped in the Bud: Eutrapely Condemned | p. 132 |
| The Gospel according to Lucian: Christianity is once again Stupid and Mad | p. 141 |
| Lucian in the Pulpit | p. 151 |
| A Taste of Lucianic Laughter in the Colloquies | p. 154 |
| Laughter in the Annotations | p. 161 |
| He who Calleth his Brother a Fool | p. 176 |
| Fools in Cap-and-Bells? | p. 186 |
| Caps and Bells Sneak In | p. 194 |
| Obscure Men | p. 205 |
| Dutch Wit, Gallic Licence and the Liturgical Year | p. 211 |
| Christian Wit and Christian Comedy: 'The Great Jester of France' | p. 220 |
| Christian Laughter at Shrovetide | p. 226 |
| Seeking for Signs | p. 233 |
| Christian Laughter for Faithful Folk | p. 240 |
| Laughter at the Philosophy of Christ | p. 255 |
| God's Coadjutors: Deed and Words and Christian Laughter | p. 262 |
| Laughing at Idolatry | p. 278 |
| Laughter and Christian Mythology | p. 286 |
| Gluttony | p. 289 |
| Realist Laughter: Laughter and Eternity | p. 293 |
| Charity and Joy | p. 306 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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