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  • Chapter 5 - Wisdom and Wit: Making Fun of the Emperor

  • Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Imagining the Roman Emperor
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 160-178

  • Summary

    This chapter focusses on discourse: how emperors were discussed and understood and how they were seen to interact with society. In particular, the chapter argues that part of the expectations placed on emperors was their ability to take a joke. Analysis focusses on emperors making and taking jokes, which outlines themes of accessibility and affability with wider society. An inability to be seen as jocular or amused translated as negative impressions of character that were fundamental to the historical and biographical receptions of emperors.

  • 3 - The Lecture, 1979

  • Fiona Kisby Littleton, University College London Institute of Education, Susan Bewley, Emeritus, King's College London, James Owen Drife, Emeritus, University of Leeds
  • Book:
    Presenting the First Test-Tube Baby
    Published online:
    23 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 March 2023, pp 48-130

  • Summary

    This chapter transcribes in full the groundbreaking lecture given by Edwards and Steptoe at the RCOG on 26 January 1979. The historical context is evoked by having the original images of the slides that the lecture spoke to inserted at the places where they were referenced, as they were essential for purposes of illustration. A scholarly set of notes is appended to help readers understand the text from the vantage point of four decades later, citing other relevant medical, scientific, pharmaceutical and biographical work.