Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by Guy Halsall.
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Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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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. |
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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.