A medieval 'knock-knock' joke
Bute Psalter, Paris ca. 1285
LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 46, fol. 12r via @discardingimages The meta-literary mock legend of St Nemo is the result of one of the more sophisticated linguistic jokes in the medieval period. The Latin indefinite pronoun nemo means 'no one' and is found, naturally, in many medieval texts. In the Bible, we are told that …
