TY - BOOK AU - Halsall,Guy ED - ebrary, Inc. ED - International Medieval Congress TI - Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages AV - D80 .H86 2002eb U1 - 306.4/81 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Humor KW - Classical wit and humor KW - Laughter in literature KW - Aliens in literature KW - Europe KW - History KW - 476-1492 KW - Social conditions KW - To 1492 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10021340 ER -