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050 00 $aD80$b.H86 2002
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245 00 $aHumour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages /$cedited by Guy Halsall.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2002.
300 $axiv, 208 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aMost of the papers were first presented in a series of sessions at the fifth International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds, 1998.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"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.
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval$xHumor.
650 0 $aClassical wit and humor.
650 0 $aLaughter in literature.
651 0 $aEurope$xHistory$y476-1492.
651 0 $aEurope$xSocial conditions$yTo 1492.
650 0 $aAliens in literature.
700 1 $aHalsall, Guy.
711 2 $aInternational Medieval Congress$n(5th :$d1998 :$cUniversity of Leeds)
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001052873.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/2001052873.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0731/2001052873-b.html