Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
edited by Guy Halsall
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.
ISBN: 0511020457
DDC: 306.481
LCC: D80
Edition: (electronic bk.)
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.
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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