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

Contributor(s): Halsall, Guy | ebrary, Inc | International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds).
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: xiv, 208 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval -- Humor | Classical wit and humor | Laughter in literature | Aliens in literature | Europe -- History -- 476-1492 | Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/81 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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306.4/81 (Browse shelf) Available

Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.