Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Guy Halsall.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Halsall, Guy.; ProQuest (Firm); International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 208 p.
• Notes: Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.

Table of Contents

"Don't worry, I've got the key" / Guy Halsall -- Laughter and humour in the early Medieval Latin West / Danuta Shanzer -- Humour and the everyday in Byzantium / John Haldon -- The lexicon of abuse, drunkenness and political illegitimacy in the late Roman world / Mark Humphries -- Funny foreigners, laughing with the barbarians in Late Antiquity / Guy Halsall -- Liutprand of Cremona's sense of humour / Ross Balzaretti -- "He never even allowed his white teeth to be bared in laughter" : the politics of humour in the Carolingian Renaissance / Matthew Innes -- Alcuin's Disputatio Pippini and the early Medieval riddle tradition / Martha Bayless -- Laughter after Babel's fall : misunderstandling and miscommunication in the ninth-century West / Paul Kershaw.