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

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description xiv, 208 p.
Note Most of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Civilization, Medieval -- Humor.
Classical wit and humor.
Laughter in literature.
Aliens in literature.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Halsall, Guy.
ProQuest (Firm)
International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
ISBN 0521811163

 
    
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