| 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.
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Classical wit and humor.
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Laughter in literature.
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Aliens in literature.
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Halsall, Guy.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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International Medieval Congress (5th : 1998 : University of Leeds)
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| ISBN |
0521811163 |
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